BearPup sometimes wants to open a file in one program, and other times open it in another. He asked the Answer Line forum for an easy way to do this. Windows uses a file’s extension–the part of the ...

Every file that we have saved on our computers has a particular extension. The file extension is added at the end of the filename followed by a dot (.). It tells the operating systems about the ...

For iOS 16 and later, Apple has introduced a macOS feature in the Files app that allows you to convert file formats on your iPhone without needing any third-party apps. If you often download or ...

In iOS 16.0 and later, you can make Apple's stock Files app display file extensions for items in the currently viewed folder. Keep reading to learn how it's done. The only issue until recently was ...

Back in the pre-Mac OS X and macOS days, Apple’s System 9 and earlier relied on hidden metadata to associate files with apps. File extensions, those bits of text that follow a period at the end of a ...

On computers and mobile devices, file extensions are the suffixes that apps append to filenames. When you see an item like "document.docx" for example, the .docx extension tells the computer and the ...

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