Topic: Renaming Tracks Causing File Extension Problem

[NOLAfishwater]

Just reformatted my hard drive and just finished tracking out a show, but I am getting this error when I am trying to rename:

If you change a file name extension, the file may become unuseable!

[flipp]

Many times you can ignore that message as it usually means when you change the extension that some other program than the one you created the file with will be the default program that opens it with the new extension.


If for some reason the file does become unusable, changing the extension to what it was originally should cause it to open with the original program. I can't recall ever corrupting a file by only changing the extension.

[NOLAfishwater]

yeah. I can't open the file after I rename it. don't know what is going on.

[NOLAfishwater]

If you don't want to deal with extensions at all, configure Windows to hide them. Double-click My Computer (or go to the main page showing all your files for an external hard drive), click Tools, and then click Folder Options. Select the View tab and scroll down the list until you see an option that says Hide MS-DOS File Extensions For Known File Types (or simply Hide Extensions For Known File Types) and put a check in the box next to that entry. Click Apply and the extensions disappear from all of your files. Now you can rename anything without typing an extension, and Windows will automatically retain the extension that existed before you renamed the file.