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How to hide file extensions in outlook
Hi there. I need to hide somehow file extension not only in File Explorer, but in Outlook also. When composing new email I insert attachment via Attach File. In this window file extensions are hi...
Thank you for the response, but steps you provided don`t work - as I`ve mentioned that:
- extensions are already hidden in File Explorer;
- I`m interested in hiding extensions on the composing email stage.
- extensions are already hidden in File Explorer;
- I`m interested in hiding extensions on the composing email stage.
No way. May I ask why do you need it - a bit strange requirement IMHO.
- I don`t know how, but some users of our com add-in have these extensions hidden in new email window. It can cause issues while processing attached to email documents, as we take display_name for processing.
- Can you modify your COM add-in to just ignore the extension?
Unfortunately, no. Problem occurs when some other com add-ins interact with attachments before ours.
For example - Mimecast Large File Send functionality - you past big attachment via Mimecast, and its attached as a link. However, they retain the full name of the file, so for example in my environments it looks like FileName.originalExtension.lfs.
In customer env it is past like FileName.originalExtension. .lfs is hidden/not shown, and our add-in processes it as pdf file(and it obviously leads to corruption of the file).