Yesterday I went to do a clean install of 9.2 I had a number of files in my home directory and before formatting the hard drive burnt everything in home to CD. I had a number of files that must have been email attachments. They were in my home/documents directory and had jpg images in them.
After doing the fresh install of 9.2 and putting the files back in home/documents they now appear as a icon with a yellow envelope with a sheet of paper behind it. They have no suffix in the file name to identify them as jpg pdf or anything. My question is how can I open these files and recover the data on them?
Assumming the data hasn't been corrupted, you should still be able to open them in an image viewer, even without the file extension.
Are you sure the extensions have really been deleted aren't aren't just not being shown? In a terminal type the following
cd documents # or wherever you're keeping your files ls
If you still don't get the extensions, you'll need to rename the files. See recent posts on how to rename large numbers of files in one go.
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