jc4d Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Hi all, I have noticed that in explorer if the file extension is associated to Affinity, the explorer stops showing the file extension and only reads Affinity Photo File. Here is an screenshot with the *.jpg file associated to PhotoLine: And here is the *.jpg is associated to Affinity: As you can see the Type it should read JPG File but it just says Affinity Photo File and this misleads the user since there is no way to see what kind of file it is, I have to click in Properties to see it, which is not good. Cheers, Juan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 48 minutes ago, jc4d said: explorer stops showing the file extension Explorer isn’t showing the file extension, it’s showing the file type. For reasons best known to themselves, Microsoft chose to set ‘Hide extensions for known file types’ as the default display mode, but there’s a checkbox that you can clear to change this. jc4d 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc4d Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 Yeah sorry, I meant file type. But why it does it only if the file is associated to Affinity but not if the file is associated e.g. Photoline in this case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 It is probably due to how individual programs install themselves. Many programs appropriate the file type names for all the file types that it can open. You need to change the way Explorer displays file extensions. Try this page for a how-to. John Alfred and jc4d 1 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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