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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
I don't know anything about changing names of files on Macintosh! Today I asked an emergency question on the rec.autos.tech newsgroup (the question is below) which has an MP4 uploaded to a web style forum which only accepts small PDFs (less than 12MB). I easily used Windows Shotcut freeware to convert the ~50 MB MP4 video to just ~5MB (simply by changing the pixels to 640x480) and then uploaded the much smaller files "as a fake PDF" by changing the name from file.mp4 to file.mp4.pdf instead. The Windows users had no problem changing the name but all the Macintosh users complained they can't change the name and I can't tell them HOW to change the name. It's really important that I get these Macintosh users to hear the file! Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file? Whatever you write, I will cut and paste into the web forum thread.! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ================================================== =============== Here is the original post to the rec.autos.tech newsgroup https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.autos.tech ================================================== =============== https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.autos.tech/uicX1l6oO_U/zzAfaVfSBQAJ Subject: Have you ever heard THIS SOUND inside your engine? URL: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1181089 Nobody on Bimmerfest knows what is causing this noise and I can't use the car until I figure out how to figure out what the noise is. This only started after I did some work this weekend on the valve cover but it sounds like someone left a socket inside the engine and it's bouncing around somewhere. I'm pretty sure I didn't leave anything inside where this sounds like it's in the intake manifold but it's hard to figure out where it's coming from as it's intermittent. It sounds like it's coming from the top of the engine somehow but it's hard to place where. You should not need a login to read that thread and download the videos. http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=730369&d=1513035084 Here's just an audio file: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=730353&d=1513034666 When you download them, remove the *pdf which I added so that the MP4 would look like a PDF to the forum upload GUI. I can't imagine what is making that noise which is why I'm asking you for how to debug that noise. Thanks! |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
In article , Arthur Wood
wrote: Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file? troll. |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
nospam wrote:
In article , Arthur Wood wrote: Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file? troll. Either that or a trump voter 8-) -- biblioholic medievalist via iPad |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
On 19-12-2017 4:05, Erilar wrote:
nospam wrote: In article , Arthur Wood wrote: Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file? troll. Either that or a trump voter 8-) Whats the difference? |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
On 2017-12-12 9:42 AM, Arthur Wood wrote:
Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file? I don't know anything about changing names of files on Macintosh! Today I asked an emergency question on the rec.autos.tech newsgroup (the question is below) which has an MP4 uploaded to a web style forum which only accepts small PDFs (less than 12MB). I easily used Windows Shotcut freeware to convert the ~50 MB MP4 video to just ~5MB (simply by changing the pixels to 640x480) and then uploaded the much smaller files "as a fake PDF" by changing the name from file.mp4 to file.mp4.pdf instead. The Windows users had no problem changing the name but all the Macintosh users complained they can't change the name and I can't tell them HOW to change the name. It's really important that I get these Macintosh users to hear the file! Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file? Whatever you write, I will cut and paste into the web forum thread.! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Easy. On a Mac, you select the file, and hit Return. That activates the file name for editing. When you remove '.pdf' from the name and hit Return again, the Finder will ask if you really want to change the file name extension and offer you the option of using '.mp4' or '.pdf'. If the file name extensions are hidden, then you can use "Get Info" from the Finder's File menu to do it instead. ================================================== =============== Here is the original post to the rec.autos.tech newsgroup https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.autos.tech ================================================== =============== https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.autos.tech/uicX1l6oO_U/zzAfaVfSBQAJ Subject: Have you ever heard THIS SOUND inside your engine? URL: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1181089 Nobody on Bimmerfest knows what is causing this noise and I can't use the car until I figure out how to figure out what the noise is. This only started after I did some work this weekend on the valve cover but it sounds like someone left a socket inside the engine and it's bouncing around somewhere. I'm pretty sure I didn't leave anything inside where this sounds like it's in the intake manifold but it's hard to figure out where it's coming from as it's intermittent. It sounds like it's coming from the top of the engine somehow but it's hard to place where. You should not need a login to read that thread and download the videos. http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=730369&d=1513035084 Here's just an audio file: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=730353&d=1513034666 When you download them, remove the *pdf which I added so that the MP4 would look like a PDF to the forum upload GUI. I can't imagine what is making that noise which is why I'm asking you for how to debug that noise. Thanks! |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
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Arthur Wood wrote: Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file? I don't know anything about changing names of files on Macintosh! Today I asked an emergency question on the rec.autos.tech newsgroup (the question is below) which has an MP4 uploaded to a web style forum which only accepts small PDFs (less than 12MB). I easily used Windows Shotcut freeware to convert the ~50 MB MP4 video to just ~5MB (simply by changing the pixels to 640x480) and then uploaded the much smaller files "as a fake PDF" by changing the name from file.mp4 to file.mp4.pdf instead. The Windows users had no problem changing the name but all the Macintosh users complained they can't change the name and I can't tell them HOW to change the name. It's really important that I get these Macintosh users to hear the file! I'll give your the benefit of the doubt and assume that by "all the Macintosh users" you actually mean "one or two Macintosh users". Tell them to go to Finder-Preferences-Advanced and make sure 'show all filename extensions' is checked. If they can't figure it out from there, they're on their own. Andre -- To email remove 'invalid' & replace 'gm' with well known Google mail service. |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
Andre G. Isaak wrote:
I'll give your the benefit of the doubt and assume that by "all the Macintosh users" you actually mean "one or two Macintosh users". Tell them to go to Finder-Preferences-Advanced and make sure 'show all filename extensions' is checked. If they can't figure it out from there, they're on their own. You can look at the web forum thread for yourself to see that the Macintosh users are telling me in the PM that the file shows up as "file.PDF." so I can only tell you what they told me. Same with the Usenet group Macintosh users. Web forum: Have you ever heard THIS SOUND inside your engine? http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1181089 Usenet group: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.autos.tech/uicX1l6oO_U/zzAfaVfSBQAJ I will put the help above into the web forum and the Usenet group, where in both cases, the Macintosh users couldn't read the files and they are very different users overall. They're engine experts. Not Macintosh experts. Thanks for the help. If it works, the web forum and Usenet newsgroup should soon show that the Macintosh users can read the file. |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
In article , Arthur Wood
wrote: You can look at the web forum thread for yourself to see that the Macintosh users are telling me in the PM that the file shows up as "file.PDF." so I can only tell you what they told me. Same with the Usenet group Macintosh users. it shows up as pdf because you changed it to pdf. |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
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it shows up as pdf because you changed it to pdf. The web forum only accepts the following 6 filename extensions https://www.turboimagehost.com/p/36851451/upload.gif.html gif 500KB 1200x1200 jpe 500KB 1024x768 jpeg 500KB 1200x1200 jpg 500KB 1200x1200 png 500KB 1200x1200 pdf 12MB It's pretty common in web forums to do that extension addition trick. If you see file.ext.pdf you know to just remove the PDF extension. The main problem is that videos are large so on Windows it was easy to just shrink the ~50MB video to about ~5MB just by exporting it to 640x480. Then I renamed the file to add the ".pdf" and said so in the web forum. PDF is chosen only because it allows a file size greater than half a MB. Thanks to the Macintosh file renaming instructions, I think the Macintosh users on the web forum are ok now (as the first poster to complain was the guy named Fudman who is very knowledgeable in bimmer engines so for him to complain means that it's not obvious to all Macintosh users - but when I sent him the instructions he was finally able to watch the video on his Macintosh). |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
In article , Arthur Wood
wrote: The web forum only accepts the following 6 filename extensions upload to a file sharing service and link it. It's pretty common in web forums to do that extension addition trick. no it isn't. |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
On 2017-12-12, Arthur Wood wrote:
guy named Fudman who is very knowledgeable in bimmer engines so for him to complain means that it's not obvious to all Macintosh users - but when I Being knowledgeable about car engines doesn't magically make him representative of all Macintosh users. I'm willing to bet most Mac users know how to rename a file. Anyone who uses all of the above platforms on a regular basis knows renaming files on macOS is just as simple as it is on Linux or Windows. Click the file's name and you are in filename editing mode - simple. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
On 2017-12-12 19:11:52 +0000, Arthur Wood said:
nospam wrote: it shows up as pdf because you changed it to pdf. The web forum only accepts the following 6 filename extensions https://www.turboimagehost.com/p/36851451/upload.gif.html gif 500KB 1200x1200 jpe 500KB 1024x768 jpeg 500KB 1200x1200 jpg 500KB 1200x1200 png 500KB 1200x1200 pdf 12MB It's pretty common in web forums to do that extension addition trick. If you see file.ext.pdf you know to just remove the PDF extension. The main problem is that videos are large so on Windows it was easy to just shrink the ~50MB video to about ~5MB just by exporting it to 640x480. Then I renamed the file to add the ".pdf" and said so in the web forum. PDF is chosen only because it allows a file size greater than half a MB. Thanks to the Macintosh file renaming instructions, I think the Macintosh users on the web forum are ok now (as the first poster to complain was the guy named Fudman who is very knowledgeable in bimmer engines so for him to complain means that it's not obvious to all Macintosh users - but when I sent him the instructions he was finally able to watch the video on his Macintosh). You over-complicated the problem by making it a "fake PDF". There are a ton of hosting websites where you can upload a file of any type and almost any size, and then simply post a link to it in the forum. For a video, YouTube would be the most obvious candidate, but there are plenty of other places. |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
On 2017-12-12, Arthur Wood wrote:
================================================= ================ Here is the original post to the rec.autos.tech newsgroup https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.autos.tech I just went to the forum, downloaded each of your recordings, clicked the name of each file to remove ".pdf" from the end of each filename, and all of them play fine on macOS. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
On 12/12/2017 17:42, Arthur Wood wrote:
Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file? You could have asked a Windows person as Macintosh person is not likely to be around here unless he is completely mental to spend time here where only the intelligent people discuss rubbish. There is normally no room for mental people here. -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
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Arthur Wood wrote: The Windows users had no problem changing the name but all the Macintosh users complained they can't change the name and I can't tell them HOW to change the name. It's really important that I get these Macintosh users to hear the file! Use Get Info from Finder. In the Name and Extension panel, type in the name. Unclick Hide extension if shows up. Alternative 1: Open Terminal and use the mv command. Alternative 2: Unmount the filesystem, and mount the volume as a block special device. Seek the sector with the directory, read it, alter it, write out. Close the file and remount the filesystem. -- :- Siri Seal of Disavowal #000-001. Disavowed. Denied. Deleted. @ 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' /|\ I'm saving up to buy the Donald a blue stone This post / \ from Metebelis 3. All praise the Great Don! insults Islam. Mohammed |
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