Renaming files makes them useless

[vong]

So I went to rename a movie last night and after I entered it the movie became a file that I can't use with anything... I notice this only happens if I don't put a file type e.g avi, mkv, mp4 in the file's name. Never happened before so would anybody know why it's happening?

[Blackterror25]

Well then don't remove the file type

[WiiManic]

Under folder options, make sure "Hide Extensions for Known File Types" is ticked if you don't want that.

 

Hides the .exe .rar .mkv etcetc

[needmorewood]

So I went to rename a movie last night and after I entered it the movie became a file that I can't use with anything... I notice this only happens if I don't put a file type e.g avi, mkv, mp4 in the file's name. Never happened before so would anybody know why it's happening?

u have file extentions on so when u renamed the file its just a file not a .mp4 .mkv or whatever

just dont delete the last part of it

[vong]

Under folder options, make sure "Hide Extensions for Known File Types" is ticked if you don't want that.

 

Hides the .exe .rar .mkv etcetc

 

Thanks a lot mate.

[TheProfosist]

Dont remove the extension when renaming? Are you still using xp or vista?

[TheProfosist]

Under folder options, make sure "Hide Extensions for Known File Types" is ticked if you don't want that.

Hides the .exe .rar .mkv etcetc

For me its so much harder to use a pc if you do that.