Tilman Schmidt schrieb:
> Roberto Ullfig schrieb:
>
>> We'd like to rename the attachments with another suffix,
>> one that will never be used for an application (present or future). Does
>> anyone know if a standard suffix has been created for just this purpose?
>>
>
> Such a suffix does not and cannot exist. There is no regulation or
> assignment authority for file suffixes. Every Windows program can claim
> and use any suffix it likes.
> What's more, even if a suffix is not assigned to any program by default,
> when the user tries to open a file with that suffix on a particular
> Windows installation the system will cheerfully offer him or her to choose
> a program for opening it, which it will by default permanently associate
> with that suffix, and then it isn't unassigned anymore.
> So no suffix you try to put aside will ever be safe from being assigned
> to an application, either by the application's author or by individual
> users.
>
> HTH
> T.
>
>
You could rename to .executable-renamed-$RANDOM
Name is descriptive enough so noone will want to use it for something
other than executables.
Yet it isn't constant so users won't be able to place an association to
the program. And beginning the
extension with .exe, you're making life easier for your users when they
want to rename attachments
back: they just need to remove the end of the extension.
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