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    How to Make XP Regonize OS9 File? [non-notebook q]

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by tmcnellie, Oct 27, 2004.

  1. tmcnellie

    tmcnellie Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, This may not be the right forum for this, but I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having.

    I'm transferring roughly 1,000 Microsoft Word files from an iMac with OS 9.2 to my Windows XP laptop.

    Moving the files isn't a problem, but XP won't recognize them as Word files unless I manually tack on the .doc extension for each file. Not a problem with a few files, but quite a chore with more than 1,000.

    Is there anything I can do on either the Mac or PC to address this?

    Thanks.



     
    tmcnellie, Oct 27, 2004
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  2. MistaMuShu

    MistaMuShu Notebook Enthusiast

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    One solution is to navigate to the folder with all the documents in command prompt and enter the following command:

    for %a in (*.*) do rename %a %a.doc

    Make sure you are in the right folder though. If you're unsure of how to use the command prompt, just ask me.
     
    MistaMuShu, Oct 29, 2004
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