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Tom T. wrote:I didn't understand this, either, but now I do - we're talking about *import* now, right? Useful if the save-to location contains many different files, of many different types.

Works in both cases (ie. in every Windows API file picker dialog) and could be useful in both cases, say you want to replace a particular file.

Don't understand why I would want no ending.

Probably really unlikely, however on other platforms file endings don't play such a major role (AFAIK they don't even do as much on Windows as they used to, file system metadata and other trickery and also decides on how a file is handled).

dhouwn wrote:(AFAIK they don't even do as much on Windows as they used to, file system metadata and other trickery and also decides on how a file is handled).

I'm still on "Windows as they used to", LOL. (XP, first released in 2001.)

(Seriously: Changing extension does indeed change how/what OS does with it, still controlled and configurable through the GUI with Folder Options > File Types, or directly via editing the Registry, which that GUI does more easily and safely.)