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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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What the heck is this .2006 file? VLC plays it perfectly fine (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Unlikely-Answer@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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[–] 0smo5is@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Windows hides common file extensions by default, and periods are valid in file names.

(folder settings -> view -> 'hide extensions for known file types')

When file extensions are hidden, anything you type in a file name, including periods, becomes the file name, and the extension is added on to it at the end.

Example:

File extensions hidden:

Idiocracy.2006

Not hidden

Idiocracy.2006.mp4