AdamB Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Is anyone else experiencing this? The "Automatically Hide Extensions" option, set in Preferences>General, doesn't appear to hide the extensions when selected. I'm not sure if this is caused by the latest update or something else on my system. MacOS Mojave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 As explained here, if Finder Preferences > Advanced > Show all filename extensions is enabled, this causes all file extensions to be shown, even if the 'hide extension' flag is set for any of them. So if you want the "Automatically Hide Extensions" option in Affinity to work, that Finder preference must not be enabled. Also, I don't know if this is something specific to my iMac running Mojave or what, but I normally run with the Finder 'show all' option enabled & the "Automatically Hide Extensions" option in all the Affinity apps disabled (so all file extensions are always visible everywhere). In testing, when I first disabled the Finder option & then enabled the Affinity one, it had no effect, but after quitting & relaunching the Affinity app it did. So it may be necessary for you to do the same quit & relaunch thing for it to work in your Affinity apps, but maybe not. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamB Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 Thank you for your response. My Finder Preferences > Advanced > Show all filename extensions is disabled. I've tried multiple combinations of: Disable "Automatically Hide Extensions" No change....extensions still show Restart Affinity Enable "Automatically Hide Extensions" No change....extensions still show Restart Affinity No change....extensions still show Enable Finder Preferences > Advanced > Show all filename extensions Reboot Disable Finder Preferences > Advanced > Show all filename extensions Start Affinity No change....extensions still show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 3 minutes ago, AdamB said: No change....extensions still show The only thing I can suggest -- but it is just to see if there might be something other than Affinity involved & not itself a fix -- is to select an Affinity or other graphics file in Finder, open the Get Info window & tick the "Hide extension" box. If the Finder 'show all' pref is disabled, then the extension should disappear immediately, both in the Get Info & Finder windows. If that doesn't happen then whatever is causing your issue must have some other cause. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamB Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 I've done as suggested and the extensions does disappear in both Get Info and Finder windows. I also checked Affinity Photo to see if it behaved the same as Designer yet it works correctly, the extensions are hidden. So this seems to be isolated to Designer. Perhaps I should reinstall the program to see if that resolves the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamB Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 No one else is having this issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamB Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 This has been resolved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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