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way to add extensions to many files
Name: ryanB Date: February 3, 2005 at 14:45:38 Pacific OS: win xp pro CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
i have 500+ files in a folder with no extenstion. if want to add the same extension to all of them would i have to do it manually or maybe theres some way to do it with a program or something?
Name: Wombat Date: February 3, 2005 at 14:48:43 Pacific
Reply:
Flash Renamer will probally do what you want...
http://www.rlvision.com/flashren/about.asp
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Response Number 2
Name: HiJinx Date: February 3, 2005 at 14:54:34 Pacific
Reply:
You can do it from the command prompt (start>run, type in cmd).
The syntax would be something like...
ren c:\miscfiles\*.* *.doc
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Response Number 3
Name: HiJinx Date: February 3, 2005 at 15:04:16 Pacific
Reply:
Just a small note... response #2 will affect all files in a directory, so only do it if there are no other files there aside from the ones you want to rename.
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Response Number 4
Name: StuartS Date: February 3, 2005 at 15:29:57 Pacific
Reply:
Are you sure these files have no extensions? If you have hide extensions for known files type enabled, the file extensions will not show.
What kind of files are these?
Stuart
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Response Number 5
Name: OtheHill Date: February 3, 2005 at 16:06:18 Pacific
Reply:
I agree with stuart. I believe WinXP doesn't show extensions for common file types. It would be unusual for files to exist without an extension.
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Response Number 6
Name: User Date: February 4, 2005 at 06:43:25 Pacific
Reply:
This'll do it....
http://www.musicsucks.com/CKSoft/CKRename/
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Response Number 7
Name: vhornjr Date: February 4, 2005 at 07:50:47 Pacific
Reply:
If these files truly have no extension then response #2 will work fine, just leave off the second "*"
ie ren c:\miscfiles\*. *.doc
This will ONLY rename those files with NO extension
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