Wrong File Type Description for a couple file types

Question

Seeing the above when I look at the File Associations listing.

However...

.vcf should be vCard

.vcs should be vCalendar

Any easy fix in Win10 solutions to what's going on here?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Andy,

The file type being displayed in File Explorer is affected by the default program association of the file. In this case, we reproduced the issue on our end and found out that if both .vcf and .vcs files are associated with Outlook, it does indeed show the wrong file descriptions. Both files are not affected and can still be opened normally using Outlook.

However, if you change the associated program with the .vcf file to the People app, it'll show VCF file instead, as can be seen below:

If you change the associated program to Windows Contacts, the file description changes to VCard file:

Lastly, if you change the .vcs file association to Notepad, the file description changes to VCS file instead of vCard file:

You can change the file association by following these steps:

1. Right-click the file and choose Properties.
2. Click Change and choose a different program.
3. Click Apply.
4. Click OK.

If the files can be opened properly by your preferred Mail/Calendar program, you can continue using it. Our developers and engineers would definitely benefit from learning about wrong file descriptions that you encountered with Windows 10. We encourage you to submit this using the Feedback Hub so that they could consider correcting this in a future update.  

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