On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:29:24 -0800, lukas wrote: > hello, > > i recently had the job of having to rename about 200 files. The source > for the renaming was a bunch of names in a file. I know next to nothing > when it comes to bash scripting (which would have seemed the obvious > choice) so i used python. The files i was renaming were canon raw files > (.CR2). my problem is that after i rename the files, OS X will no longer > render the thumbnails for the files, and preview is no longer the > default app for viewing them. Does anyone have an idea as to why this > is? Thanks for the help :)
Did you rename them to "file001.TXT" etc.? Sarcasm aside, you don't give us enough information to answer the question, but I can make some vague suggestions: What did you rename them to? Do the files still have a .CR2 extension? What is the default app for viewing them now? Have you tried forcing OS X to reload the directory? (I assume there is a "Refresh" command somewhere in the user interface.) If you Get Info about the file, what does it tell you? Does OS X have a concept of file type and file creator meta-data, like the old classic Mac operating system did? If so, have you changed them? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
