Odd behaviour

Hello
I have some rules set up that rename and move some downloaded pdf's. It checks a folder for pdf's moves it and renames it. However on some pdf's it changes the 'kind' to a textedit document as checked when using get info but the document still opens by default in preview. I have checked the open with settings and textedit documents should open with textedit not preview
Can anyone advise as to whay is going on?

Thanks

Mark

Is the extension intact? If not, then you need to fix your Rename pattern and make sure the extension is still there.

I'm also seeing this issue when I add rules to change the filename and in my case the jpg extensions are still intact.

Screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/JruqY4L4

Here's the rule I have a place:

https://share.getcloudapp.com/7KublPL6

Thanks

Make sure there are no extra spaces after the "extension" attribute in your pattern. If that checks out then I think there's a deeper system-level issue here. What happens if you rename a file with a .jpg extension in Finder yourself?

Thanks, that did the trick.

I wonder if there could be warning message for spaces after extensions if it's going to cause this kind of issue. It's difficult to see in the small editing field and I can't think of a situation when you'd want a space after an extension.

Just a suggestion.

Thanks for your help.

Tim

Possibly though it's hard to tell when users are trying to do certain things intentionally or not.