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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Any really decent archive program doesn't care what the filename extension is.
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True, it doesn't, but it's simpler to select an archive program when right clicking on a zip named file.
Of course years ago for reasons I never understood, MS decided to hide file name extensions by default in explorer even though they decide on Windows what happens. Linux/Unix/BSD and MacOS can often do the right thing even if the extension is deleted, but not if it's the wrong extension (see magic numbers). However I downloaded an ebook from Amazon recently and it wouldn't open in Calibre till I renamed it from .azw to .mobi, but other azw (separate to azw3 files) files open.
It's annoying in LibreOffice Writer that on the preview window of recent documents that it hides the extension as I only edit .odt and most checked files have also a .docx version saved. I have to hover mouse to see full file name.