Remove the dot extension from folder names

Jul 20, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: kel

Sometimes I'd download some file that, after unzipping, will create a folder named something like coolapp 1.2. I often rename the folders to my liking, so I'd click on the folder's name in the Finder and rename it to something like coolappfolder. However, the Finder would try to keep the .2 file extension, and would return the folder's new name as coolappfolder.2. This didn't seem right to me, so I tried a few more times, and sure enough, the Finder would always keep the dot.X extension.

So, here's the hint ... rather than making a new folder called coolappfolder and moving the contents of the coolappfolder.2 into it, you can simply use Get Info (Command-I), and rename the folder in the Name & Extension field. Voila! The silly folder extension is gone gone dot gone.

[robg adds: In testing, I couldn't replicate this issue, but I'm not sure which version of OS X the poster is using, so perhaps this affects something other than 10.4.7.]

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