Append file extension

I want to shut off the automatic append file extension when saving a file in Illustrator CS3 to not have the .ai appear at the end of the file name. How do I do this?

In a manufacturing company where naming conventions are in place, we don't want .ai placed into the file name on certain files. I am running a Mac and never had to have an extension in the filenames before cause Macs always hid the extension? I have the Finder preference to not show extensions but since Illustrator is placing it as part of the filename in the save dialog, it shows no matter what. What does adobe expect us to do, click on the file in the Finder and get infor, then click hide extension? We are making the conversion from Freehand to Illustrator (not by choice) and this is turning into a big nightmare on a lot of issues.
Give me a lecture on the mapping issue. If I remove the .ai in the save dialog box before saving, I haven't seen any issues yet. My applescript studio applications don't save the .ai when they drive Illustrator. No issue there either. Tell me what you know about mapping issues.
Don't want the app to automatically append file extension. Can it be done.... Yes or No?

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Photoshop cs5 is not appending file extensions

in previous versions, photoshop appended to the file extension in the fiel save/save as dialog box. it no longer does this and when you save a file it does not append the file extension to the file name, resulting in unknown fiel type.
i am running windows 7 64-bit with photoshp cs5.
it does not make any since to have the option of appending the file extension if the program is not going to do it.
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krwebb wrote:
The operating system has no problems with the filenames ... it is Photoshop that is not handling the names correctly.
Just tried this out on my Windows 7 64 bit system, and I get the same results using Photoshop.
When I save a file in Photoshop CS5 64 bit with the name 047. Crayon - Abstract the file is saved as 047. Crayon - Abstract without a file extension, no matter what document type I select in the drop-down.
In Word I get the expected result:
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Save as just started automatically appending file extension -- how to stop

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thanks Ry

Thanks Benjamin,
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do save as: get filename without any extension
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Setting "Append file extension" in PSE9 Trial

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Barbara,
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Michael,
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Byard,
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Photoshop CS6 stopped saving file extensions

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PSD files sent over FTP given 1kb file size, archived, and have .bin appended to extension

I'm trying to deliver PSD files to someone over our server's FTP. If the FTP shared folder is accessed via a browser (like safari which is the main thing I've been testing on), the files in are listed as being only 1kb in size when each is approximately 60MB and all have had .bin appended to the .psd file extension. When the file is downloaded it's still 1kb and when opened it is associated with the archive utility which attempts to unarchive it and produces and identically named and extensioned file of 4kb size which cannot be opened by preview or text edit or photoshop.
Changing the extension does not help as suggested here http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-25119.html . Also if the file is downloaded via 3rd party FTP software like cyber duck, though the file size is listed as 1kb, the correct size file is downloaded though still has the .bin extension. When this full sized .bin file is opened, archive utility instead of unarchiving attempts to archive it and produces a file roughly half the size which too cannot be opened. Speaking with apple care resulted in the suggestion that I use terminal command line to force the client to use binary mode when downloading the file which also downloads a file of correct size but with the .bin extension and that can not be opened.
Is this a known issue with PSD files? I've not come accross this before, the server is configured correctly and different file types are successfully downloading with no changes to size or extension and then opening as they should upon receipt at the client side.

Hi and thanks,
that was my next port of call but I stumbled across a more permanent fix. Mac OSX server automatically converts files sent over FTP to something called MacBinary on the fly and it seems this process doesn't agree with PSD files. Someone else encountered this problem back in 2003 and found this solution
http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-25119.html
speaking to apple care they also sent a link for the official mac instructions for achieving the same thing here
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20996
and here
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20645?viewlocale=en_US
in the second explanation it's important to note for anyone attempting to follow this that if you're fixing the problem on MacOsX server rather than just MacOSX it isn't necessary to enable the root account as it is automatically enabled by default. Simply log out and log back in as root and use the same password as the first administrator account you set up when the server was first configured.

Automatic appending of file extension of downloaded files

Hello,
When downloading files with certain extensions (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .tar.bz2), Safari will append an extension to the file after the download is finished (.dot, .xla, .pot, .tar).
I don't know what exactly is the case of the problem, but I know this is a feature meant to correct the filename of downloaded files whose extension doesn't fit their MIME or UTI, or something along the line. For me, it is quite annoying since I download a lot of these files. It is annoying enough that I adopted Firefox as my main browser even if I prefer the sleek Safari design.
Some posts on the web point out this problem for Microsoft's extension and propose a way to fix it (modifying office package), but I am looking for a way to disable the feature from Safari. Effectively, it causes only annoyance on my computer and it has never been proved useful. I expect the file on Internet to have the correct extension and I don't like Safari trying to outsmart it.
Is there a way to disable the renaming feature?
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I'm having this issue with xml files renamed to .ychat.
I noticed this after installing Yahoo! Messenger, therefore, there msut to be a way to undo this.
It's getting annoying since I use to download many xml files from web pages.

Can one lift a file-name without the file.extension in javascript

I suspect this matter may have come up before but I could not find a thread on it ...
Anyway: If I grab a filename for later use with
var thedoc = app.activeDocument
var docName = thedoc.name
it picks up the original file-extension too.
Is there a way to avoid this or to »substract« the extension later on?
What I want to use that for is for saving multiple flattened CMYK-files from a layered RGB-psd-file into the same folder as the psd-file and appending a letter-combination to signify what printing-conditions they were generated for.
As Im plenty ignorant in Scripting-matters any help would be appreciated.

Here I go again:
Originally I thought I would combine Actions and Scripts into a Droplet but then I got to thinking one Script containing all the operations would be neater.
However I cant figure out how to write the Color Conversion of the RGB-files to CMYK into the Script.
In »convertProfile« how do I address the ICC-Profiles and the Intent?
Once again help would be appreciated, as I simply cant seem to figure it out from the Adobe-documentation on Javascript or a web-search.

Change file extension in receiver file adapter

File to File Scenario
Posted: Sep 11, 2006 3:47 PM Reply E-mail this post
I am working on a File to File scenario.
Source System gives out a file: abc ( with no extension)
We need to archive it as: abc.done
And we need to send it to a FTP server ( receiver File adapter) as abc.txt.
How can I append a file extension when I archive and
how can I change the file extension in the receiver File adapter?
FYI, we are using XI as FTP server so I have created dummy message interface with no mapping.

Hi,
If I understood correctly once XI picks up the file it should be archieved as filename.doc and then it should be FTP'ed to a different location with a change in extension filename.txt.
1. To Archive in the sender communication channel you can use OS Commands after prosessing (>=SP14) to rename the file and archive it. Suggested write a batch file which will rename the file and call the batch file from the OS Command of the sender file adapter. You can either use Archive functionaliy of the Sender adapter or you can write one more command in batch file to move the file to different folder. Make sure you are using fullpath while writing batch file.
2. As said use dynamic configuration in a dummy mapping and then get the source file name and change the extension.
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Photoshop doesn't save file extension

I'm using PS cs5.1 64 bit and Bridge cs5 in Win7 Pro 64 bit.
When I "Save As", photoshop won't write the file extension unless I explicitly type it (i.e. i have to type "filename.psd" as opposed to just "filename") in the file name text box.
If I Save As the file without specifying the extension, bridge simply displays a blank page icon for the file, and if I double click it, I get the "don't know what application to use" dialog. If I select photoshop as the program to use, ps will open the file correctly.
However, even after I change the filename in bridge by adding the extension, bridge displays the PS icon, but won't preview the file (doesn't show a thumbnail).
If I want bridge to show a thumbnail, I have to re-open the file in PS, then Save As, remembering to explicitly specify the extension. THEN, Bridge will show a thumbnail.
How can I correct this? I've gone through the preferences dialog and have "save lowercase extension" checked, but this appears to be a preference for case of saved extension, not a specification that an extension should always be saved.
btw: I tried the regedit fix specified on other help forums, but this didn't help.
Thanks.

I think I figured it out.
I was saving filenames which contain "." in the name (e.g. "BO.HG.M.psd").
When I saved the file with the name "BO_HG_M", photoshop appended the .psd extension for me, and bridge is happy.
Because of the application of the images, it's important that we use the "." format for the names, so I'll just live with it and try to remember to type the ".psd" on the end.

How to set file extension?

Hello there,
I have added the ablility of saving the data in my program. I was wondering how do I restrict the file extension when the user wants to save the file?
What I mean is right now, when a user saves the data to file, they can choose the file name and the file extension. I do not want to allow them to choose file extension. I want to have a predefined extension, for example .usr or .dat.
I have seen this in many applications but I do not know how to implement this. I would appreciate it if someone could help me.
Thanks for your help!

How you are getting the fname from the user has an impact on how you do this, but not what needs to be done. What is required to have something that takes the fname from the user and parses it, extracting a fname. Once you have that, just append the extension that you want and save the file.

Read lines from more than 1 file of different file extensions, extract the data and output to screen

Hi,
I am trying to read data from more than one file at once. The files are different types e.g. one is a text file one is an xml file like so, StudentInformation.txt, CollegeInformation.xml. The files are all stored in one place, in this case on the D drive of
a local computer. I am trying to locate any files in the D drive with a file extension of .txt or of .xml (there may be more than two of these files in the future, so I'm trying to allow for that). Then I want to open all of these files, extract the information
and output all the information in one display window. I want all the information from these two or more files to be displayed together in the display window.
Here is the code so far. It is throwing up errors.
//Load from txt or xml files
private void btnLoad_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
IEnumerable<string> fileContents = Directory.EnumerateFiles("D:\\", "*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly)
.Select(x => new FileInfo(x))
.Where(x => x.Extension == ".xml" || x.Extension == ".txt")
.Select(file => ParseFile(file));}
private string ParseFile(FileInfo file)
try
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(file.FullName))
string line;
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
//Logic here to determine if this is the correct file and append accordingly
lbDisplay.Items.Add(line);
return line;
catch (Exception ex)
// Let the user know what went wrong
MessageBox.Show("The file could not be read: ");
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
The error it throws up is:
Error 1
'BookList.MainWindow.ParseFile(System.IO.FileInfo)': not all code paths return a value

This is the Small Basic programming language so moving to a C# forum.
But you need all paths to return a value, including if an exception is called and it jumps to the catch, perhaps just:
// Let the user know what went wrong
MessageBox.Show("The file could not be read: ");
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
return "";

Pdf file extension missing on export

That's it really - the pdf file extension is always missing when I export from Pages 09 to PDF. This causes Windows users problems especially when attached to emails. Any way to force Pages to add the extension?

I repeat:
I uses MacOS X since 10.3.
I use iWork since the delivery of iWork '08 then iWork '09.
I never got a document created by a 'modern' application without the extension name appended.
So I continue to think that if an extension is missing it's because the user made something wrong.
Maybe installing a third party component fooling the OS.
They are a lot of such "enhancers" which introduce oddities in the system behavior but I can't guess what is installed on your machine.
Just an example.
I tested on three macIntel machines running 10.5.6 or 10.5.7.
The menu items Format > Font Bold and Italic are always disabled when TextEdit is using "Plain Text" format.
On the machine of a correspondant, the items are enabled in such setting.
I'm quite sure that there is a beast changing the application's behavior but I can't guess which it is.
Back to the Finder setting.
It's not designed to Hide all extensions names.
It it designed to Show all of them or don't show all (which means that some may continue to be displayed).
As far as I know, the behavior is this one:
if a document is save when the Finder is set to "Always display the extensions", unchecking the box will not hide the extension.
if a document is saved when the Finder is NOT set to "Always display the extensions", checking the box will display the extension, unchecking it will hide the extension.
If you use the Finder with the box checked, the extensions of the files created on your machine will always be displayed.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 1 juin 2009 13:03:18)

Photoshop CS does not append the extension to the filename

Hi there.
My Photoshop CS does not append the extension to the filename, when I save with Save as..., so it save all the files as .psd.
And when I try to open these files, it says that it cannot, because the file is "invalid" or someting.
I had the same problem with Photoshop Elements 5.0
I've that problem only on that computer. Not others.
What I can do?
Here's a stamp: http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/7022/stamp.png
(sorry for my really bad english)

Well, into PhotoshopCS/Plug-in/File Formats there are those files: Cineon.8bi; Gif.8bi; Png.8bi; WBMP.8bi
I've tried to copy all Photoshop files from another computer, where Photoshop works fine, and I've replaced with them the files on that computer, but it doesn't work yet...
I'm thinking that's a problem of that Pc, but what?
Thanks for all your helping, by the way.

.jpg file extensions - how to find/add?

Hi, all:
Kind of a noob question... when I switched from the Dark Side, I imported all of the photos that were on my PC into my Mac. For whatever reason, the .jpg file extension was not appended to those photo files, and so iPhoto does not display them in its "Info." I only see the filename itself, not the ".jpg" part (iPhoto does display the .jpg extension for all photos I downloaded into iPhoto).
So, my two questions are:
1) Where/how can I find the individual files that are in my iPhoto library, so that I can see which ones do not have the extension?
2) Is there an easy way to add the .jpg extension to each file that doesn't have it, an app, or shareware, or something? Renaming 2,000+ individual files does not appeal to me...
Thanks!
Bill in CT

You can't add the jpg extension once the photo has been imported into iPhoto. It needs to be done before you import. If you add the extension to photos already in the library that's the same as changing the file name and will break the file path to the original file. You will get the dreaded "!" if you try to edit or use the photos in a book or slideshow.
You really don't need to add the extension for iPhoto to operate correctly. If you need the photos outside of iPhoto and need them to have the extension you can export them out of iPhoto via the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu option. Set the Format = JPEG with the other settings as you see fix and you'll get the new files with the .jpg extension.

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