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re: Renaming files Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:14 pm Posted by CITechnologies (234 messages posted) It sounds like when you are renaming the file that it is also trying to rename the file extension (ex: mypicture.jpg whereas .jpg is the file extension and changing the file to just mynewpicturename without an extension. You may want to try and rename by typing the file extension in the name such as mynewpicturename.jpg) On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 6:51 pm, Heather wrote: >Hi....hoping someone can help me out here please. When I go to rename say a .jpg >or mp3 file a box comes up asking if I want to change it (which I've not had before). >If I click yes the file then changes to .rar file. This only recently started happening. >Any help would be much appreciated...thankyou [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Renaming files Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:42 pm Posted by Heather (79 messages posted) Thankyou CIT... yes that does work. Any reason for this type of thing to start happening all of a sudden ?? On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:14 pm, CITechnologies wrote: >It sounds like when you are renaming the file that it is also trying to rename the >file extension (ex: mypicture.jpg whereas .jpg is the file extension and changing >the file to just mynewpicturename without an extension. You may want to try and rename >by typing the file extension in the name such as mynewpicturename.jpg) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Renaming files Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 8:19 pm Posted by C9H13NO3 (361 messages posted) Any reason for this type of thing to start happening >all of a sudden ?? It sounds like maybe you previously had "Hide extensions for known file types" enabled and that somehow it got switched off. You can check for the option in Control Panel>Folder Options>View tab. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Renaming files Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 8:58 pm Posted by Heather (79 messages posted) That was the reason C9, all fixed now. Many thanks to both of you for your help :-) On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 8:19 pm, C9H13NO3 wrote: >Any reason for this type of thing to start happening >>all of a sudden ?? >It sounds like maybe you previously had "Hide extensions for known file types" enabled >and that somehow it got switched off. You can check for the option in Control Panel>Folder >Options>View tab. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum