How to preserve file extension on rename?

So, my little First World Problem:
On Snow Leopard I was very used to pressing enter and renaming a file by simply typing a new name while preserving the extension. Now I've noticed that in Lion when you press enter and start typing the new name, you'll have to type in the extension too. Is this changeable?

No, the behavior in Lion should be the same.
I just tested it and "return" highlights the name and leaves the extension.

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Hi,
I'm trying to get our Sharepoint 2013 server to show file extensions again and I've had no luck so far. I've been able to add an extra name column that shows the file extension (like ), but that name is not clickable anymore so I've ended up with one name
that's a link and the same name next to it. This doesn't look good, especially when the users pick overly long file names.
This (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11161.how-to-display-file-extensions-in-a-sharepoint-document-library.aspx) seems to apply to Sharepoint 2007 only. I'm not sure which onet.xml file they mean and the default file has several
occurences of "Name=”Created_x0020_Date”", or how adding
Name=”File_x0020_Type”/> without an extra opening bracket would work.
I've also found and tried this solution: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/59c15eee-9116-4aa1-8d16-32cd361c9a2f/show-file-extensions-in-document-library?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious
>>3. Edit the WebPartPages:XsltListViewWebPart so that the link contains the extension.
>>a. Open SharePoint Designer and click on the desired document library.
>>b. Open the View you want to change, which in most cases is "All Documents".
>>c. Find the line that looks like this:
>><xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@FileLeafRef.Name" />
>>d. Edit the line to look like this: (the xsl:if tests to see if the suffix is not blank and then displays a '.' and the suffix)
>><xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@FileLeafRef.Name" /><xsl:if test="$thisNode/@FileLeafRef.Suffix!=''">.<xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@FileLeafRef.Suffix" /></xsl:if>
This doesn't seem to work with Sharepoint 2013 because the line <xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@FileLeafRef.Name" /> doesn't seem to exist. Are there any other suggestions on how to get the file extensions to show?
Thank you.

Hi
use these functions
RIGHT (Text, Number)
Return X characters from the right
RIGHT(“The Quick Brown Fox”, 5)
n
SEARCH(Text1, Text2, Num)
Returns the index of Text1 within Text2,starting the search at index Number
Formula should be
right([Name-column],search[".",[Name-column],1))
More info regarding calculated columns
http://junestime.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/sharepoint-calculated-column-formulas/
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How to assign file extension and custom icon to executable?

Hi all,
I was reading an old thread about this issue:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=116925
I need to try to do this. My application uses a custom file extension (i.e. .abc). Upon installation I would like to:
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battler. wrote:
My application consists of Event Structure.
How to register for ommand line event so that when a user double-clicks on a .abc file I can handle the opening of it?
This needs to work (the files need to open) not only when the application is closed but also when it's already open.
Anyone have ideas?
The solution to that is to implement a DDE server in your application (and add DDE entries to the registry on installation). There are still DDE functions in LabVIEW vi.lib\Platform\dde.llb but they are considered depreciated and have been removed from the palette, also because Microsoft is trying to tell everyone that DDE is depreciated and sort of unsupported too. But it is still the mechanisme to pass actions from the shell to running applications.
I hesitate to send you over to lavag.org where there have been some discussions about this years ago. If you go there you would do good to employ a friendly attitude. That board is run all by enthusiasts and idealists and they are all great folks but react not very friendly to people with an attitude.
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How to set file extension?

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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.
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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.

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I've tried to edit my .htaccess file to hide file extensions in my URL, but nothing I try works. I get "Page Not Found" when I try to remove the .html from my pages. Here is the code I have used:
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When you save the document there is a check box in the save window that gives you the option to hide the extension. I've checked this for both Pages & Word. I can't be certain that all applications give this option.
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When I switch the finder's view to symbolic the files view turns to an icon or minimized first page of the file's content. In some cases the file extension is displayed at the bottom of this symbol. E.g. files of type PDF always show the 3 letters PDF at the bottom of the small preview image. Files of type PKG don't show it.
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I tried it and it didn't look like it took effect. I switched folders and cam back to the first one I looked at and the extensions were showing.
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How to strip file extension off a filename NSString ?

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9 views any nobodies helping ?
Oh well...
I've created this function to achieve this:
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How to validate File extension.

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Can anyone suggest me any Function Module to validate a file extension while selecting the Filename at popup window.
thanx
Rakesh

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If you are using upload FM, fill up the following parameters..If you want to filter the data by certain extension.
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How to create encrypted File Extension??

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to make my question clear suppose we develop a word proceesing Application i would like this Application produce let say ".kad" when saving it and how to make this extension ".kad" encrypted meaning that we couldn't open the file unless my Application is existing.
can anyone help me or give a tip to start of the way!!!!!!!!
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Hi eng_kadry,
if a little confusion is enough for you can use just a binary format, i.e. do not store readable text, but compacted binary information.
If you really need to encrypt your data have a look at JCE (Java Crypto Extension) which provides various encryption algorithms.
Note: You can't encrypt a file extension you encrypt the file. You can't prevent anybody opening the file with a hex-editor, but if you use binary or a really encrypted format he/she won't be able to make any sense out of it.
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Illustrator extend script save() changes file extension

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Windows 8.1 File Extensions and Show Hidden Files Always showing

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guess is that could not be a virus please help.

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Dreamweaver as custom editor for other file extensions

So, I'm working on a project that requires me to work on some
files with non-standard extensions. Namely, I have some text files
that have a .cm extension, and I have some code files which have no
extension at all. I am connecting to my file store via an FTP
"site" set up in Dreamweaver.
Under preferences->filetypes/editors, I set up ". .cm" for
those two cases, and had selected "Dreamweaver" as the primary
editor.
The files open just fine, and I'm able to edit and save them,
and when I do, the files get "PUT" back up to the FTP server as I
want. However, what I've noticed is that the first time I edit one
of those types of files, and save it, now, from then on in that
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leave that list blank, Dreamweaver still is able to open up the
files as I want, but this weirdness with FTP putting and the
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This TechNote explains how to add file extensions to be
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16410
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very well.
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some files with
> non-standard extensions. Namely, I have some text files
that have a .cm
> extension, and I have some code files which have no
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I want to exchange .html extensions to .php in a folder. Actually, someone showed me how to it with AppleScript. However, someone else told me about Autmator, which looks like a really cool tool. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to change file extensions with it.
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I want to delete all file extensions on the files I have in several sub folders.
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Does the Notebook software accept aliases? If so, you could rename aliases instead of the main file, so that the original extensions are preserved.
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