File Extensions messing up the rename while saving

I just tested on an M1 Mini.

I had to go turn on Show All Filename Extensions in Finder to even show the extension when renaming.

There is no issue with that option turned off. And, there is no issue if you just type over the selected name. The delete key seems to cause the issue.

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Your profile is showing macOS 10.13, and you are posting in the Monterey (12.0) community. Pages v11.2 on macOS 12.0.1 only selects the basename of the Untitled.pages name and not the entire filename. Thus, one can just type "why" and only the Untitled is replaced, allowing one to save normally. Pages v7.3 and v8.1 on High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G14042) behave exactly the same way for me.

One would have to triple-click in this Pages save panel input field to select the entire filename.

.... Would you suggest, I just send feedback, or is there s specific place I should report?

I didn't look through the possibilities as I thought macOS would be the appropriate place. I don't think there is a Finder category. The macOS category should be the catch-all for anything not listed on the main feedback page.

Hyram193 wrote:

I have just updated to Monterey, and now when I save a new {anything}, the extension doubles up or reappears or in general messes up the naming.

Below is an example using Pages, but this is happening with every program.

I'll highlight the default untitled name, start typing what I want it to be called, in this case 'why', and as you can see, it accepted the w, but inserted '.pages' before the hy.

Is this happening to anyone else? Any Ideas?

I've got a MacBook Pro 2019

Is this isolate to the Pages .app....?

Pages needs the file extension .pages yes this is not an issue

You can export the file as some other format if you want to get past default extension .

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