Courtney, Are you running 10.2? I'm fairly certain this applies for earlier versions but I'm now running 10.2 and don't have another machine handy for reference.
If you go to the Applications => AppleScript folder, there is a menu item called Script Menu.menu. Drag that to your menu bar. You'll get a little icon that functions as a script launcher. Open a Finder window containing the files to which you wish to append .html. Click on the AppleScript menu and choose Finder Scripts => Add to Finder Names. You'll get a little window prompting you to enter the text you wish to add as a prefix or suffix... You'll probably need to refresh the window by either closing it and reopening it or clicking elsewhere and then back on it. But the file icons and their extensions should be changed. Also, David, not to pick nits, but if you click on the filename when selecting it in the Finder and THEN click and move on the filename you'll be able to rename it. Granted, it's TWO clicks, but not three... On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 08:11 PM, Courtney Simpson wrote: > First, let me wholeheartedly agree with your rant David. I rename > files all the time, and this is a constant annoyance. > > Second, I know next to nothing about scripts, but I do know that if you > use one to modify file extensions, you do bypass that annoying "Are you > sure?" dialog. You'd think that the machine would believe me after > thousands of extension changes. > > And for anyone that is wondering, no, Jaguar does not fix this problem. > But it will give you a map to Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, > California, should you need to speak to someone personally about this > matter. => > > --Courtney > > On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:39 AM, David Deckert wrote: > >> >> On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Brian Scott Oplinger wrote: >> >> Just off the top, I'm wondering if an AppleScript droplet that changes >> the >> last part of any file name to html when something's dropped on it >> might >> work. Sometimes such automatic doings have a way of bypassing Finder >> dialog boxes. Even if it doesn't prevent the dialog box, I'd think it >> would still help save you some time. >> > <snip> >> >> <rant>My pet peeve is modifying filenames in X. Click name. Click name >> second time so Finder knows you mean the name, as opposed to the icon. >> Click a third time because you don't want all the text selected. >> That's >> 300% more clicks than is necessary. It's OK if you want an all-new >> name >> because now all the text is selected the first time, but I usually >> only >> want to change one or two characters.</rant> >> >> >> >> -David >> >> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Whenever I add a file extension to an exisitng file (such as .html) >>>> OS X >>>> asks, "Are you sure you want to add the extension <whatever> to this >>>> file?" >>>> Usually I'm doing it because I've downloaded an updated version from >>>> Fetch, >>>> which gets saved as <file>.html.1, and I'm removing the .1 after >>>> having >>>> trashed the earlier version. 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