Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions

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From: Paul Mison
Subject: Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions
Date: 11:39 on 02 Sep 2003
On 02/09/2003 at 11:13 +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:

>What is going on?  How do I get this thing to stop!  Not even Windows
>Explorer is this braindead.

Finder > Preferences > Always View File Extensions

Of course, if Avie hadn't had his NeXTy way with things, the Mac 
might just use metadata that wasn't part of the file name for file 
typing, and something this braindead would never happen. Even then 
people would complain that everyone else uses file extensions so the 
Mac should too. Bah.

Mark asked elsewhere whis isn't in View Options, and the 
justification appears to be that they're about setting per window 
options. Of course there's also a 'make this a default' button. 
That'd be nice if it worked. Every time I reboot - whether the Finder 
quits cleanly or not - I have to switch list view back to 'Don't use 
relative dates' and 'Do calculate folder sizes'. It fails to remember 
whether the toolbar (another NeXTish horror) is showing or not. I 
can't change the default list view alignment (because the size of the 
file name by default is far too huge for my liking). At least the 
icon view settings generally work.

Bah.

-- 
:: paul
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