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
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IF you open Folder OPtions - View tab -
Is Hide extensions for known file types checked on ? -
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Did a test using Agent Ransack - Free File Searching Utility , ticking Not and using .* as the search criteria, found all content with no extension. May be of help in your case.
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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). -
Search for files with no extension?
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by yensed, Oct 2, 2011.