Mac is known for its impressive productivity and hassle-cutting tools that help you get more done on your machine in less time. The stock apps built into the Mac are some of the greatest tools I have ever come across. From the Finder app for viewing and managing files to the Photos app for organizing photo libraries, everything has been designed thoughtfully and is really amazing.Many times what happens is that we want to change the extensions of numerous files on our Macs. Maybe there’s a bunch of image files with the JPEG extension, and you want them to use the JPG extension, and so on.
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Usually, what a user does is right-click on each of the files he wishes to change the extension of and select Rename and enter the new extension at the end of the file name. It works amazingly, but it is only good when you have a small number of files whose extensions you want to change.If you happen to have, say a hundred files, it will take a lot of your time to change the extensions of those files, and it really is a painful task. Fortunately, though, as I said earlier, Macs are really time-saving machines, and they do have a method that lets you quickly change the extensions of multiple files at once. Your Mac allows you to change the extensions of some files at once using the built-in tools and doing that is as easy as renaming a file. If you know how to rename a file, you already know how to bulk change extensions on your machine.Here’s our guide that shows how to bulk change file extensions on a Mac: Changing the File Extensions in Bulk on Your MacTo do the task, you don’t need to download and install a third-party application on your Mac as the app that you need to do the task already exists there – the Finder app.Here’s how to use the Finder app to get the task done:Go to the desktop of your Mac so that you are inside a Finder window.
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You are going to change a Finder setting so you must be in a Finder window to be able to do that.While you are inside a Finder window, click on the “Finder” menu at the top and select the option that says “Preferences.” You get the settings panel for the Finder app from where the settings related to this app can be adjusted.You should land in the General tab when the preferences panel opens. Click on the “Advanced” tab on the top to go to the advanced settings panel as that is where the option we want to change is located.4. When the Advanced tab launches, you should be able to see a couple of options that you can adjust. What you need to do here is checkmark the box that says “Show all filename extensions” and uncheck the box that says “Show warning before changing an extension.”The reason you enabled the Show all filename extensions option is that is how you can see the extensions of the files in the Finder app. If the option is disabled, you are not able to see the extensions and the extension changing process becomes complicated for you.The reason you turned off the Show warning before changing an extension option is that you don’t want to get a prompt asking you if you would really like to modify the extension of a file each time a file’s extension is changed. That way you can save yourself from a hundred prompts that appear when you change the extension of a hundred files on your Mac.You may now close the preferences panel as your job’s done there.Open the folder that has the files you wish to change the extensions of. Select all of the files in there and right-click on any of them and select “Rename X Items” where X is the number of files you have selected.When the Rename files box opens, you see a few options that you can change.
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What you need to do here is select Replace Text from the drop-down menu that appears on the top of the box.Then, enter the current extension of the selected files in the input box that says “Find.” The Finder app only renames the files that have this extension.In the “Replace with” input box, enter the new extension you want for these files. Make sure it is a compatible one, or you cannot open these files after the process has finished.When you are done configuring the options, click on “Rename” to begin the file extension changing process.
It should not take too long.You should now be able to see all the selected files with your new extension.The selected files should now have your chosen extension as their file format, and you should be able to view them in an appropriate app on your Mac.When you do this procedure, make sure you only use a compatible extension, or it messes up everything. For instance, never change the DOCX extension to PNG or something like that as the original file is a Microsoft Word file and you are converting it to a PNG image format which is not possible. I hope you get the idea.You might also be interested in:.Have something to say? You can contribute to this tech article by leaving a comment below. Mahesh Makvana Mahesh is a technology enthusiast who loves everything about tech, be it Apple, Google, Android, iOS or any other cool gadget.
He enjoys covering tips and tricks for consumer software such as Android, Mac, and iOS. He spends most of his time thinking about new helpful tips in front of his Mac but also knows mobile operating systems very well. Mahesh has been writing online for nearly a decade and has written for some of the most renowned websites in the world, including Make Tech Easier and The Unlockr.
Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its State of Malware Report for 2020 [PDF], which suggests that Mac malware is growing much more common.
For the first time ever, Macs outpaced Windows PCs in the number of threats detected per endpoint. Malwarebytes detected 11 threats per endpoint for its Mac users, compared to 5.8 for its Windows users. The Mac threats were up quite a bit from the 4.8 threats detected per endpoint in 2018. Malwarebytes says that there was a 400 percent increase in the overall prevalence of Mac threats in 2019, but part of that increase is attributable to an increase in the Malwarebytes for Mac user base, which is why the threats per endpoint metric was used for comparison purposes. Malwarebytes claims that the average number of threats detected on a Mac has surpassed Windows 'by a great deal.' This means that the average number of threats detected on a Mac is not only on the rise, but has surpassed Windows--by a great deal. This is likely because, with increasing market share in 2019, Macs became more attractive targets to cybercriminals. In addition, macOS' built-in security systems have not cracked down on adware and PUPs to the same degree that they have malware, leaving the door open for these borderline programs to infiltrate.This data only includes threats detected by the Malwarebytes software, of course, and it is limited to Mac users who have Malwarebytes installed. Many Mac users may not install antivirus software like Malwarebytes until there's a sign of something wrong, so it's important to take that into account when viewing these numbers. Adware overall was more aggressive in 2019, targeting consumer and business endpoints on Windows, Mac, and Android devices. There were a total of 24 million Windows adware detections and 30 million Mac detections, with the top consumer threat detections belonging to adware families. According to Malwarebytes, the Mac threats appeared at the top of its overall threat detections for the first time. The number one Mac threat detected was a family of adware called NewTab, installed as a browser extension or as an app. NewTab aims to redirect searches on the web to earn illicit ad revenue. Most Mac threats are not as dangerous as some of the threats detected on Windows machines and consist of adware and potentially unwanted programs. The most common traditional Mac malware family, OSX.Generic.Suspicious was far down on the list of Mac-specific malware detections in the 30th spot. Potentially unwanted programs include 'cleaning' apps like MacKeeper and MacBooster, along with apps like Advanced Mac Cleaner, Mac Adware Cleaner, and others. Of all Mac threats, only one incident used a technique other than tricking the user into downloading and opening something they shouldn't. That is the incident in which Coinbase, and several other cryptocurrency companies, were targeted with malware that infected systems through a Firefox zero- day vulnerability. Affected systems were infected with the older Wirenet and Mokes malware. This was the first time such a vulnerability had been used to infect Macs in any significant way since 2012, when Java vulnerabilities were used repeatedly to infect Macs (until Apple ripped Java out of the system, ending the threats).According to Malwarebytes, adware and unwanted problems are becoming a more noticeable nuisance to Mac users overall, and Mac users can 'no longer say that their beloved systems are immune from malware.' Malwarebytes' full report can be read on the Malwarebytes website. GuidesUpcomingFront Page Stories
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