Extra extensions during export/save InDesign and Photoshop

Hi Aaron,

I can see a similar issue with file name suggestions from the Save or Save As dialogs when I like to save an opened IDML file. In my case the number of periods used in the file name is the issue.

Let's start with an InDesign document named:

MyDoc-17.0.1.105.indd

to reflect the exact version name of InDesign that created it.

Export it to IDML where the name of the IDML file is correctly suggested as:

MyDoc-17.0.1.105.idml

Now I open that IDML file and I want to save it to a new name.

The full base name of that IDML file is visible in the tab:

*MyDoc-17.0.1.105 @ 76 %

The name suggested now with the Save command is:

MyDoc-17.0.1.indd

The last part of the IDML name, .105 , is missing.

Obviously I used one period too much in the base name.

This issue is not new. I can see this already in InDesign CC 2018, the first version where not "untitled-1" is showing up as the name of an opened IDML file.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi @aarondrowndesign , OSX reserves names that begin with "." for the system’s hidden files. If I try to make a folder starting with a dot I get this:

If I show invisible files via Command-Shift+. with Mojave, I can see the system’s hidden files:

You also can’t use colons because they are used for file paths in scripting:

>> Wassup with this?

Don't do like this. Use it "-" or "_" instead "." and forget about it.

It is generally not a good idea to add periods to a filename. There are a lot of little programs and algorithms that are parsing filenames, not all of them are cleverly written. Some might see anything after the first period as the file extension, some might see anything after the last period as the file extension. Period is one of those characters to avoid using in filenames, like / and :