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Introduction

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Commonly Used File Types

Safe File Types

Those in green are in our recommended list

Type

Extensions

Remarks

Common used Images

gif, jpg, png, svg

We don’t recommend to allow BMP because it takes a lot of space

Other images

ai, eps, psd, tif, xcf

These are file formats used by popular image editors

Microsoft Office Documents

doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx

Microsoft Office Document Templates

dot, dotx, pot, potx, xlt, xltx

Only include them if you need to store the template files

OpenOffice Documents

ods, odp, odt

OpenOffice Document Templates

odt

Other Document Types

key, pdf, rtf, tex, xps, vss

Text Files

csv, log, sql, txt

Multimedia (Audio)

wav, wma, mp3

Multimedia (Videos)

mov, mpg, mp4, m4v, qt, wmv

Potentially used for screen recording

Web

htm, html, xml

Dangerous File Types

Note

This is not an exhaustive list of dangerous. We only list some of them as examples to explain the risks.
Hence we recommend to use the AllowList mode.

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