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Numbers file turned to exec after renaming
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Ah, what a difference a dot can make!
While renaming the numbers file, you added a dot after the .numbers file extension!
A file ending whith a dot (.) is interpreted as an executable or application.
Just remove the dot from the numbers file extension:
no longer:
.numbers.
but:
.numbers
Your numbers file is a numbers file again!
While renaming the numbers file, you added a dot after the .numbers file extension!
A file ending whith a dot (.) is interpreted as an executable or application.
Just remove the dot from the numbers file extension:
no longer:
.numbers.
but:
.numbers
Your numbers file is a numbers file again!
Thank you very much. It happened once and I made the same amendments. But this time round, I totally forgotten where that DOT should go. LOL funny how I managed to write a new file based on recollection and that new file doesn't require a dot.
It does. Mac OS just does not show the extension (checkbox in "info"). It used to do it by default, now it appears to be more or less random to me.
There’s an option under Finder preferences “Show all file name extensions” which can be turned on to show them.
Yes, it shows them all and always if "Show all file name extensions" is selected, then the extensions obviously are always shown.
On the contrary, if "Show all file name extensions" is disabled, user may manually override it on a per-file basis by unticking the "hide extension" checkbox in file info window.
(And I believe it depends on the app if it decides to create files with this checkbox enabled or not. Well, some apps do not even care about extensions at all, but that's a different story.)
On the contrary, if "Show all file name extensions" is disabled, user may manually override it on a per-file basis by unticking the "hide extension" checkbox in file info window.
(And I believe it depends on the app if it decides to create files with this checkbox enabled or not. Well, some apps do not even care about extensions at all, but that's a different story.)