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the ‘hide extension’ annoyance
whenever I ‘export using quicktime conversion’ fcp 5 keeps hiding the ‘.mov’, no matter how many times I tell him not to do so.
in the dialog box I name the files ‘whatever.mov’ but the ‘.mov’ is gone when exploring in the finder, attaching to a mail message, etc, so I have to manually rename each file. I know it’s not a big deal but it’s kind of annoying.
is it me? it it the 10.3.9 OS? is it quicktime 7? any hints? -
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Are you sure the extension isn’t there already? Check with Get Info / Name & Extension
Extensions are hidded to make life a bit easier 🙂Peter
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When the Finder is active go to: Finder (drop down menu)>Preferences and make sure “show all finder extentions” is checked.
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thank you thank you. I changed the finder preference and now it works ok.
anyway… what is weird is that only fcp 5 hides file extensions like this. other apps I use (and prior versions of fcp) don’t. even other apple pro apps don’t.
maybe it makes someones life easier but when I type “title.mov” in the dialog box I expect to see “title.mov” in the finder.
btw if I attach the file with the hidden extension in a mail message, windows users will have to rename it.sebas
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