Exporting Problem - File exports as document, not .wav file

Installation & Configuration Mac OS X
#1

Hello. I downloaded Ardour last week (running OSX Tiger) and have been greatly enjoying it. However, I have run into a little problem and am wondering how to work around/solve it.

I exported several pieces of music over the weekend and everything was going smoothly. In order to free up some disk space, I moved the folders to my external drive. Today, I dragged one folder back to the desktop, opened it, edited the audio a bit and exported the new mix. However, this time, it saved not as a .wav file, but as a document. I worked on a second piece of music, saved it, exported it and this second piece as well exported not as an audio file, but as a document.

Does anyone know why this happened and how I can get around this problem? Perhaps the solution is easy. Please assist if you have time.

Thank you.

#2

Try to add “.wav” at the end of the filename. (If you exported as wav)
I have to do that with the files I exported.

#3

did you check “show all file extensions” in the ‘Finder Preferences’
under ‘Advanced’?

#4

Thank you for your advice. I simply changed the extension to .wav and the problem is solved. Wonderful.