Mac/pc relinking sucks...missing file extension on mac

hello
I have indd files with linked images, but this images is from mac, and many mac users dont write file extension to files (). I need to open this files on pc and cant relink this files with "relink to folder" function.
example: "link1" from mac need to relink on pc to "link1.tif". And here is the end.
how to beat this problem?????????????
And please mac users, write extension to files!!!! You are only 5% users in the world. This is general culture!!!

I was 2/3 fact and 1/3 joke. That's pretty good I'd say!
I get files without extensions all the time that are impossible without a little knowledge to open. Earlier this week I got this. I made due and found what it was. It's not an amazingly hard thing to do. Bad art preparation doesn't exclusively burn Windows users.
You don't come to a design forum and cite windows marketshare without expecting some friendly jabs. Mac's Adobe CS3 sales were somewhere around 75% of the total sales, so touting 5% is kind of just asking for flames. It may be shifting more toward PC's, but I've only ever seen one person submit a job to our print shop that used the PC version of InDesign.
Renaming groups of files to include extensions should be pretty easy for any graphic artist. I've 100 more issues with people having jpegs mislabeled as tiffs than I've had file extensions. Open them in a text editor and figure out what they are. Link management is something any artist should know and it is the obligation of the person inheriting the art to sort it out. If you have issues with what you get provided to you either find someone else to provide the files to you, or if they are a customer that you don't want to lose the business to you are forced to deal with it.
If it was easy they wouldn't call it work.

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