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Re: Selective rennaming of extension

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On 2018-09-11 2:02 PM, Your Name wrote:
> On 2018-09-11 17:56:18 +0000, JF Mezei said:
>> On 2018-09-11 13:50, nospam wrote:
>>>
>>> that's a bad idea, since doc and docx are different formats, and it
>>> should be able to quicklook it without doing anything.
>>
>> Incumbent telcos and/or the CRTC feed us .docx file formats as .doc 
>> files.
> 
> You need a better service provider with software isn't still stuck in 
> the 1980s thinking files only have three letter filename extensions.
> 
> 
> 
>>> select one file, get info in finder, then choose the desired app in the
>>> open with panel and click the change all... button.
>>
>> the .doc and .docx are opened by the right apps. It is the app itself
>> which complains about not being able to parse .doc file, but when you
>> rename file to .docx, the same app pens it nicely.
>>
>> So this isn't a question of associating a different app to a file
>> expension, it is a question of telling apps such as Preview and Pages to
>> treat .doc as .docx if .doc parsing fails.
> 
> You might be able to do it using A Better Finder Rename.
> <http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/>
> 
> Automator should be able to do it. Via Folder Actions you could set it 
> up to "watch" a folder and automatically change the .doc to .docx.
> 
> There are also a couple of 'butler' apps which will also do watch folder 
> changes, but I can't recall the names at the moment.
> 
> *BUT*
> the problem with any automated method will be files that truly are .doc 
> format which you don't want to be changed. You would need something that 
> can look inside the file to check which format it actually is before 
> renaming the ones that do need to be done.
> 
> 

I think you'll find you're completely wrong about the idea that changing 
the extension of any file will bother the originating software in the least.

As you point out, you need something that looks inside the file to see 
what format is really being used, and there already is something:

The application that opens the file.

I just took a file I KNEW to be in the newer, ".docx" format and 
switched it's extension to ".doc".

Word opened it just fine.

So the only issue is for him in this case is that when a file has the 
".doc" extension, the QuickLook system fails to display its contents.

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Selective rennaming of extension JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-11 13:37 -0400
  Re: Selective rennaming of extension nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-11 13:50 -0400
    Re: Selective rennaming of extension JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-11 13:56 -0400
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-11 14:03 -0400
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 09:02 +1200
        Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 14:10 -0700
          Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-11 22:21 +0000
            Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 15:27 -0700
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 13:51 +1200
                Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 18:58 -0700
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-13 15:15 +0000
                Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-13 08:18 -0700
            Re: Selective rennaming of extension JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-12 13:42 -0400
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-12 10:43 -0700
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-13 15:16 +0000
        Re: Selective rennaming of extension Elden <usenet@moondog.org> - 2018-09-11 18:39 -0700
          Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 18:44 -0700
            Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 18:15 +1200
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2018-09-12 14:14 -0600
          Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 13:52 +1200
  Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-11 18:17 +0000
    Re: Selective rennaming of extension JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-11 15:32 -0400
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 12:36 -0700
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-11 22:18 +0000
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-12 08:23 +0000
        Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-12 08:45 -0700
  Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 08:50 +1200

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