On 17/04/2017 6:41 PM, John Nash wrote:
The very large amount of noise on this topic seems to be the result of allowing Windows to hide file extensions. We have had to put up with millions of malware infections because someone in M$ thought this would be a nice idea. I've seen it cause lots of problems over the years, including among my own family. Perhaps someone can create a check and repair that automatically turns this "feature" off whenever R is run. One reason among the many why I run Linux.
MacOS does this now too, though it feels less aggressive than Windows. This page tells how to disable it there: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19072?locale=en_US
There's little point providing a link to a Microsoft page for doing this on Windows, because their help page links are not very durable. The main one that Google finds describes itself as obsolete.
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