Hi Rob, that's from Script Menu yeah? Unfortunately, it doesn't read what
file extension a file should have, it just allow you to arbitrarily add one
of your own. It also doesn't do subfolders.
I have to amend 12Gigs worth of files ... it'd take me forever. :)
I can't help you with the file types. If you knew the file type, you
could get a unix guru to write a grep command too change all files.
You could get a programmer type to write something to traverse the
folder tree, get the file type from the file's resource fork, look up
the equivalent file extension in some sort of table and then add this
to the file name.
Someone like Onno could do this easily.
Rob
Cheers,
Tobes.
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From: Rob Phillips
Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 4:29 PM
To: Oldham, Toby
Subject: RE: Win2K needs visible file extensions
I was thinking there must be Applescripts, but I'm not sure where to
start
looking. :}
T.
Applications:AppleScript:Example Scripts:Finder Scripts: Add to File
Names.scpt
Add Prefix-Suffix to File Names
This script is designed to add a prefix or suffix to files in the front
window of the desktop.
If no folder windows are open, the script will effect items on the
desktop.
At 4:21 PM +0800 6/5/04, Oldham, Toby wrote:
> If a file has a .extension it displays the file correctly, but
the
> freaking
> > thing then has the gall to _hide_ the file extension on the
windows box.
> > Talk about two faced.
>
Sure, you need to change the names of the files first, but once onto
Wintel, you can choose whether to see them or not.
Rob
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