Hi Roger, In the finder get info window, under name and extension, you have the "Hide extension" checkbox - if you uncheck this the extension should reappear.
Of course doing this on an individual file basis would be a pain! Two approaches come to mind (just ideas - I've never tried this) - See if you can find or create an automator script to do the finder thing on selected files. - I would guess that the extension visibility is something you could turn on or off in terminal - so I would think you could write a command to change the extension visibility on a directory basis. I would google it - someone is bound to have come up with this before. Good luck Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/6/09 2:33 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au at rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone have or know off a utility that will look at a file and then give > it > the correct extension? > > We are moving away from our AFP file server and will be only using SMB > connections so of course loose the resource fork nd as we have many thousands > of > file without extensions this will cause our users some grief > > best regards > > Roger > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
