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    Search for files with no extension?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by yensed, Oct 2, 2011.

  1. yensed

    yensed Notebook Geek

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    My friends notebook HDD is failing and I was able to recover the pictures folder and a couple other things they wanted. Unfortunately some of the image files lack extensions. I can fix them by adding ".jpg" to the end and the file is perfectly fine. But there are years of pictures in folders categorized by Month+Year the images were taken. Is there anyway I can see a massive list of every file in the backup folder and sub folders so I can sort by type? Normally I would just do a search from the main directory but None of the file names have something in common since they used some importing program which named all the pictures as "001,002,003" etc.

    Thanks
    -Dan
     
  2. JOSEA

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    IF you open Folder OPtions - View tab -
    Is Hide extensions for known file types checked on ?
     
  3. yensed

    yensed Notebook Geek

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    All extensions are shown. That's how I'm able to manually rename and add ".jpg". If I can get a list of all the files lacking an extension I can select them all and have a program add the extension for all of them. Which is much quicker then me renaming them all manually.
     
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    Actually, Just using ".*" with Windows search worked. I thought because there was actually no "." in the filename it wouldn't work. But it did! Thanks :D
     
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    As an anecdote, I tried the built-in search in (the excellent) Free Commander, what worked there was *. while Agent Ransack needed .* with the 'Not'.

    w7 search with either *. or .* gave some seemingly random mix-up of all kinds of results with and without extensions (I'll never trust w7 search).
     
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    It wasn't a big deal though as I was able to view by List and sort by Type. So all the files with no extensions got grouped together. I really appreciate the advice though, it might be useful in the future!