In message , Tim Streater
writes:
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The type of a file and which app you'd like it to open with are items
of file metadata and have no business being part of the filename.

1. I think it does no _harm_ to have it as part of the filename, though.
2. The use of metadata requires that it be _in the file_, not in
something the OS stores _alongside_ the file - since that can get
separated from it, or corrupted separately. And since there are
filetypes for which metadata _isn't_ in the file (plain text being the
obvious, but I think some forms of raw image, some hex dumps and the
like ...), that ship has sailed. It's rather like those photo-album
softwares that use their own tags, which get confused if someone moves
one of the image files in explorer without telling the photo-album
software.
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