One of the biggest pain points for those who get started using Mac OS X after coming from a Windows world is that you cannot really see file extensions in OS X's Finder. Many of these Mac newbies believe that there are no file extensions at all on OS X -- but that is simply not true.
You can enable file extensions to show on Mac OS X on a global scale for all files, or for just a particular file. In this post, you will learn how to enable the visibility of file extensions globally on OS X -- I am using OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) but this process works similarly on other iterations of OS X:
Labels: extensions, finder, mac_os_x
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