It’s easy to show and hide file extensions on the Mac. In fact, you can reveal file extensions for individual files, and show or hide filename extensions on Mac OS X globally. By default, OS X ships with file extensions for popular file types hidden. So image files with the .png extension will omit the .png at the end of the file name, and apps will likewise discard the .app extension. Here in this article let us discuss How to show and hide file name extensions on Mac. But here you are discussing only few of them.
Managing app extensions globally :
The most popular managing app extensions globally is accomplished through Finders’s preferences.
- Initially open Finder in the menu bar and click on the preferences.
- Click the advanced tab.
- Check “Show all file name extensions”.
- Once you check-in that you would be able to see all the files on your Mac sport extension.
Individually unhide file name extensions :
- To get the information right-click on the file.
- Click on the Name and Extension disclosure triangle and uncheck hide extensions.
The individual file setting only appears to work one way, that means it will only unhide an extension when extensions are hidden globally but will not hide an extension will extension are unhidden globally using initial finder method above.
