[iyonix-support] Re: Help with renaming DOS extensions please

^./mpa   ------   &1/mp3

Regards,

Jochen
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> Datum: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:23:13 +0000 (GMT)
> Von: John <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> An: archive-online@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: [iyonix-support] Help with renaming DOS extensions please

> 
> I have just renamed a large number of directories of mp3 files to include
> the appropriate DOS extension using !Rename. I did this so that a
> networked
> Windoze machine would recognise the files as music and be able to play
> them
> on WMP11. 
> 
> I now see that !Rename has appended the file extension .mpa instead of the
> expected .mp3 so WMP11 still cannot play them since it thinks they are
> movie clips  :(
> 
> I am sure it must be possible to change all instances of .mpa into .mp3
> using !Rename but I cannot find the right combination of entries for the
> two windows. Can anyone help, please?
> 
> If there is an alternative way of renaming them all - bearing in mind
> there
> are a lot of nested directories - that would, of course, do as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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