Ignore the extention when renaming a file

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Ignore the extention when renaming a file

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Is there a way to ignore the extention of files when I rename them? It's a little annoying everytime I have to be careful not touching the extention.
In HISTORY.TXT it says "Added: Changed behaviour of multiple dots in Shift+F6 (rename): the last dot matches the last dot of the source file", what does it mean?
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You can use the multi-rename tool for this (New: Ctrl+M). The note in history.txt only affects renaming with * in the new name.
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Is there a way to ignore the extention of files when I rename them? It's a little annoying everytime I have to be careful not touching the extention.
Simply rename the file to new_name.* and * gets replaced by the original extension.

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Mal angenommen, du drückst Strg+F, wählst die FTP-Verbindung (mit gespeichertem Passwort), klickst aber nicht auf Verbinden, sondern fällst tot um.
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Hacker wrote:Simply rename the file to new_name.* and * gets replaced by the original extension.

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Nice tip! Thank you!:)
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You're welcome. :)

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Mal angenommen, du drückst Strg+F, wählst die FTP-Verbindung (mit gespeichertem Passwort), klickst aber nicht auf Verbinden, sondern fällst tot um.
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