# 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:** [Octobre 20, 2015, 5:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708 "2015-10-20T05:21:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![dandv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dandv/32/169779_2.png) [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)\
**Post date:** [Octobre 20, 2015, 5:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/something-missing-in-select-images-or-files-from-your-device/34708/5 "2015-10-20T05:40:59Z")

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> [@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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