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bazfile Posted messages 58439 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   -

Hello, I am completely stuck and maybe someone can help me. I want to send several documents but it says: "a supporting document with the same name has already been added." However, when I try to change the name of the document in question, it says: "if you change the extension of a file, the file may become unusable." So I cannot rename this file and I cannot send the document. Thank you in advance for your help...

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bazfile Posted messages 58439 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   20 245
 

Hello.

You only rename the part before the dot and therefore before the extension example:

File.pdf renamed gives File01.pdf you must not touch the extension.

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alain_3013
 

The answer seems so simple but it was necessary to think of it!!! So thank you so much, I checked and you are especially helpful, thank you for this positive and very quick response.....

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bazfile Posted messages 58439 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   20 245 > alain_3013
 

You're welcome.

See you on CCM.

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brupala Posted messages 111977 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   14 422
 

Hello,

since forever, you can change a file name without changing the extension.

once, the 8.3 format was a limitation, but that's gone.

so you can have chocolate.txt and chocolate-bis.txt

if it's the email that's causing problems, you can make two with the same file name.

After that, if there is no extension, you can ignore the error message since no application will recognize it automatically anyway.

And there you go, voilà ....

But goodness, how annoying the line spacing is!!
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alain_3013
 

Thank you very much for this response ...

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