Patent ID: 8631346

Claim:
A method comprising: intercepting, by a file conversion manager running on a processing device, an operation to rename a first extension of a file name of a file having an original file format to a second extension associated with a target file format, wherein the original file format and the target file format are each one of word processing format, text format, portable document format, bitmap format, Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) format, or Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, and wherein the file having the original file format is in an unopened state; in response to the operation to rename the first extension: generating, by the file conversion manager, a user interface to receive confirmation to convert the file from the original file format to the target file format; executing, by the file conversion manager, a file conversion application to convert the file from the original file format to the target file format; and overwriting the file having the original file format with a new file having the target file format.