# Something missing in "Select images or files from your device ()"?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [October 20, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708 "2015-10-20T05:21:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708/1 "2015-10-20T05:21:42Z")
What should be between the parentheses in this message?
I’m on Discourse v1.5.0.beta2 +83. Chrome 46 on Windows.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 5:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708/2 "2015-10-20T05:24:27Z")
> [@dandv](#):
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> What should be between the parentheses in this message?
Click the upload icon in the composer menu here and you’ll see the approved file types
> select images or files from your device (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .svg, .txt, .ico, .yml, .csv, mp3, json)
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### Author:  [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708/3 "2015-10-20T05:32:48Z")
Looks like a small bug then. I have my extensions set to `*`:
Shouldn’t `*` appear between the parens, or perhaps no parens at all?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708/4 "2015-10-20T05:39:38Z")
Yep small bug for @zogstrip to look at. I would just hide the () part if they specified all file types. (by the way this is very dangerous)
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### Author:  [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708/5 "2015-10-20T05:40:59Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> (by the way this is very dangerous)
I’d love to blacklist `.exe`, but that doesn’t seem possible? Users of my forum upload all sorts of custom file formats from various self-tracking apps, and having an inclusive list failed every time someone came up with some data dump from a new app.
Maybe an alternative would be for Discourse to display a short help text in that dialog along the lines of “Please zip any file with an extension not in this list”.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708/6 "2015-10-22T18:11:37Z")
Here’s the fix 🍏
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0ea54e9255d7111ffd18bc9fe052831f641ee614](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0ea54e9255d7111ffd18bc9fe052831f641ee614)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708/7 "2015-10-22T20:49:01Z")