My vote is to leave things the way they are. The first time this happened to me, it took all of 30 seconds to figure out it was pilot error, and that I am responsible for the extension. (The next time it happened, I was able to get that figure down to about 15 seconds!)

-David.

Sean Costello wrote

> On the other hand, how hard is it to type .wav or .aiff on
> the end of a
> file? I would fear that having an automatic suffix would
> produce strange
> results, such as .aiff files being renamed .wav, or files having names
> like composition.wav.wav (I've had enough random things like
> this happen
> in Winsound, using involving a mismatch between file suffix
> and the true
> file format). Also, just as you can remove the suffix in Windows
> Explorer, you can always add one there, too.
>
> Sean Costello
>