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Jan 4^th, 2006 at 3:52pm

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Not sure if this is the right place but...

On my computer if I try to rename something it will be unstable if I don't put .exe or .jpg etc. next to it.

This only started the other day

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Reply #1 - Jan 4^th, 2006 at 4:04pm

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Does the file actually become unstable or do you just get a warning that it may become unstable?

The warning is just Windows SOP, "We think you're too stupid to operate a computer so we're going to protect you from yourself."

My system has done this for as long as I can remember.

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Reply #2 - Jan 4^th, 2006 at 4:10pm

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Does the file actually become unstable or do you just get a warning that it may become unstable?

The warning is just Windows SOP, "We think you're too stupid to operate a computer so we're going to protect you from yourself."

My system has done this for as long as I can remember.

no it becomes unstable and you can't open it

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Reply #3 - Jan 4^th, 2006 at 7:54pm

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You can't just rename a file with no extension or an incorrect extension and expect it to behave normally.

Open a new-text file.txt, type some garbage into into it and rename it new-text file (no extension). Do you see the warning? You should.

Now Send the file to to Notepad. Do you see the same garbage? You should.

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Reply #4 - Jan 4^th, 2006 at 9:54pm

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It didn't do that before though and I've had this comp about a year

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Reply #5 - Jan 4^th, 2006 at 10:36pm

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Maybe it's SP2 but it's done that for me as long as I can remember.

Maybe I change file names more often than you do - I do it a lot and I'm used to it.

It's only a warning. If you rename file.txt to file.mp3 you should expect unstable results.

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Reply #6 - Jan 5^th, 2006 at 10:24am

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no no instead of what I usually rename it to (e.g. fs9_readme) it makes me do fs9_readme.txt etc.

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Reply #7 - Jan 5^th, 2006 at 10:54am

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Windows gets uncomfortable when you try to create files with no extension or change extensions.

I often write batch files as .txt files so I don't accidentally click on Open instead of Edit. When I am finished and rename it .bat I always see the warning.

It won't force you to add .txt to the file name but if you try to open a file with no extension you will see the "Windows does not know what to do with this" dialog. Any time I see a file with no extension I just Send To notepad. I believe there is a way to make this the default action for any unknown or missing file type but I haven't bothered to implement it yet.

In summary, don't worry about it.

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