10.3: Removing non-erasable file extensions
Nov 10, '03 09:01:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
In Panther, having experienced extreme annoyance at not being able to delete a ".1" that Stuffit had appended to the end of a file, and then having experienced the same frustration with a file that had come to me with a ".5" at the end, I discovered that the constantly-reappearing offending "extension" could be eradicated by using Get Info on the file (Command-I), clicking on the "Name and Extension" triangle to reveal the text box containing the name and extension, and deleting it from there. That's the only way I've found to do it in Panther.
I don't know if this "magically reappearing 'extension'" is an "undocumented feature" of Panther or a bug, but for now, the above takes care of the annoying Finder behavior.
[robg adds: In my testing, I was able to remove both ".1" and ".5" extensions just using the Finder, so I'm not sure if the above issue is related to Stuffit somehow...]
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