accidentally renamed file to .zip

[getyourbiglobster]

hello- i accidentally renamed a file to .zip when i was really trying to rename to .iso. then when i tried to rename to .iso- it still keeps the .zip extension.

any suggestions?

[David_Jones]

Hi,

I assume, given that it is an ISO file, it is pretty big.

I find that sometimes, I have to leave really big files for, say, half an hour, before performing a second operation on them (e.g. renaming twice).

I have no idea why, but it seems to work.

HTH,

David.

[getyourbiglobster]

yeah, it is about 500+ megs.

i will try your idea.

thank you.

[HAL9000]

Since the file is associated, when you have it as a zip, it is most likely showing in windows as FILENAME, if you check in DOS, it will be FILENAME.ZIP. When you try to change it to ISO in windows, you are actually calling it FILENAME.ISO.ZIP. Go to DOS, find the file and type in;

RENAME FILENAME.ISO.ZIP FILENAME.ISO

[getyourbiglobster]

YUP-

thank you very much! -dos. who'd of thought. i'm sooo 'new school'

[glc]

You can avoid this problem by opening Explorer and going into the view options - different versions of Windows are a bit different, but find the checkbox that says "hide extensions for known file types" and UNcheck it. This is a good thing to do anyway so you don't get hit with the blahblah.jpg.vbs or .exe type viruses. Windows installs default to hiding these - and also hiding system and hidden files.

[getyourbiglobster]

thanks for the tip.

[Jenni]

You can also just Run Winfile (yes, the old 3.1 file manager) and rename the file there. It actually changes the extension instead of adding a new one behind the original.