IDM Automatically Changing File Extension From Default
August 7th, 2016
I’ve tried adding those extensions, as well as *.* in the “File Types” (and restarting IDM) but it didn’t seem to do anything.
I’ve tried googling this but I can’t find anything.
Any help would be most appreciated.
I’d say it’s being done by the OS during the save action – do you have .tgz assigned to a program?
If not, create the reg assignment (run winrar and use its settings to assign tgz to it) – after that IDM should save the file as tgz. The same might apply to m4b; an unassigned extension often gets renamed to a nearby, known, “same type” extension.
That makes perfect sense, thanks for that. Unfortunately it didn’t work for m4b, it still changes it to mp4. But I’m not worried since you mentioned it gets renamed to a “same type” extension. The file seems to work as normal anyway.