List of filename extensions (S–Z) explained

This alphabetical list of filename extensions contains extensions of notable file formats used by multiple notable applications or services.

A–E

See main article: List of filename extensions (A–E).

F–L

See main article: List of filename extensions (F–L).

M–R

See main article: List of filename extensions (M–R).

S

Ext. Description Used by
assembler source code fileUnix
Scream Tracker ModuleScream Tracker
Seed7 library / include fileSeed7 interpreter and compiler
[1] Spatial Archive and Interchange Format
[2] Sass stylesheet language, indented-format
ACIS ACIS .sat
SPSS tabular data (binary)PSPP, SPSS
Scratch projectScratch
Scratch 2.0 projectScratch
Scratch 3.0 projectScratch
HeaderScriptBasic
Superbase RDBMS form definition dataSuperbase (database)
For experimental extensions to ScratchUsed by scratchX (scratchx.org)
Scala source code fileScala (programming language)
Scheme source code file
SCRScreen Protector fileWindows Screen Protector
Sass stylesheet language
[3] SQL Server Compact database fileMicrosoft SQL Server Compact
Seed7 source fileSeed7 interpreter and compiler
Self Defining Structure provides for N-dimensional very large datasets using HHCodegeographic information systems and relational database management systems
Spatial Data Transfer Standard
Secret key ring filePretty Good Privacy RSA System
Self extraction directive fileIExpress
VideoTiertex video sequence
JAR Digital Signature
Configuration fileemacs
SFHbackup file for Strike Force Heroes (SFH) on Steam[4]
SFX (self-extracting archives) scriptRAR
Unix shell scriptUnix shell interpreter
Shell self-extracting archiveUNSHAR (Unix)
SSI-enabled HTM fileServer Side Includes
SSI-enabled HTML fileServer Side Includes
Shape entitiesESRI shapefileAutoCADArcGIS
S.I.C.K. Source File
Signature filegpg, PopMail, ThunderByte AntiVirus
S-Lang source code file
SolidWorks assemblySolidWorks
SolidWorks partSolidWorks
SMALLTALK source code file
Secret Maryo Chronicles LevelSecret Maryo Chronicles
Smacker video Format (RAD Video)
SNOBOL4 source code file
shared object, dynamically linked libraryUnix, Linux
dataSQR Portable Format
[5] Still Picture Interchange File Format
Spin source fileParallax Propeller Microcontrollers
SPSS program file (text)PSPP, SPSS
SPITBOL source code file
SPIR-V binary fileVulkan, Khronos Group
[6] [7] Ogg Speex bitstreamXiph.Org Foundation
Crestron SIMPL Windows compiled program (ZIP format)Crestron SIMPL Windows
Structured Query LanguageAny SQL database
SubRip Subtitle fileMost media players
Celestia Solar System Catalog fileCelestia
Stellarium ScriptStellarium
SMALLTALK source code fileLittle Smalltalk
STStructured text file
Celestia Star Catalog fileCelestia
OpenOffice.org XML spreadsheet templateOpenOffice.org Calc
OpenOffice.org XML drawing templateOpenOffice.org Draw
Standard for the Exchange of Product Datauniversal format for CAD exchange per ISO 10303
OpenOffice.org XML presentation templateOpenOffice.org Impress
[8] Stockholm multiple sequence alignmentBioinformatics tools eg HMMER, Xrate, Jalview
STLsurface geometry of a three-dimensional objectsoftware by 3D Systems
SSI-enabled HTML fileServer Side Includes
Stockholm multiple sequence alignmentBioinformatics tools eg HMMER, Xrate, Jalview
Standard for the Exchange of Product Datauniversal format for CAD exchange per ISO 10303
OpenOffice.org XML text document templateOpenOffice.org Writer
Surface topography (in native "SURF" format)MountainsMap
Represents the ServiceHost instance hosted by Internet Information ServicesWindows Communication Foundation
SVELTESvelte source codeSvelte
Scalable Vector Graphics
[9] Shockwave FlashMacromedia, Adobe Flash Player
SWIG source codeSWIG
Swift source codeSwift (programming language)
split Windows Imaging FormatImageX, DISM, 7-Zip, wimlib
OpenOffice.org XML spreadsheetOpenOffice.org Calc
OpenOffice.org XML drawingOpenOffice.org Draw
OpenOffice.org XML master document
OpenOffice.org XML presentationOpenOffice.org Impress
OpenOffice.org XML formulaOpenOffice.org Calc
3DS Process file3D Studio
OpenOffice.org XML text documentOpenOffice.org Writer
SYLKSymbolic Link (SYLK) fileWindows
SYMBOLICLINKReplace file for a symbolic linkUnix-like OSs

T

Ext. Description Used by
Audio codec, Lossless audio file formatWinamp (+Plugin), foobar2000 (+Plugin), Media Player Classic – BE
tar archivetar and other file archivers with support
[10] tar archive compressed with compresstar and other file archivers with support
tar archive compressed with Bzip2tar and other file archivers with support
Theme Colour fileSaturn CMS
TERTerragen heightmap fileTerragen scenery generator
Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter image
Target configuration fileTarget active security software
tar archive compressed with gziptar and other file archivers with support
Thumbnail FileGoPro, Android, some versions of iOS (Accessible via computer or Jailbreak, on User/Media/PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM)
See TIFF
Tag Image File Format image
[11] Type libraryA binary file with information about a COM or DCOM object so other applications can use it at runtime. Created by Visual C++ or Visual Studio. Used by many Windows applications.
tar archive compressed with LZMAtar and other file archivers with support
[12] Temporary file
[13] Torrent fileBitTorrent clients (various)
MPEG transport streamVideo broadcasting, digital video cameras
[14] TypeScript
Godot Engine Text Scene fileGodot Engine
[15] Tab-separated values
TrueType Font collection
TrueType Font file
tar archive compressed with xztar and other file archivers with support
Same as TBZ
tar archive compressed with Zstandard

U

Ext. Description Used by
Espire source code fileGeoworks UI Compiler Geos
Qt Designer's UI FileTrolltech Qt Designer
Umple UML Programming Language FormatUmple
Text file containing finite elements nodal coordinates and more See notesOriginally used by SDRC for its I-deas software; a lot of simulation software uses it today
Uniform Office Format spreadsheet
Uniform Office Format text
UPSROM patch file
Remote file shortcutMicrosoft Windows
USDZAugmented Reality (AR) FileApple, Pixar
USTVocal synthesis track dataUTAU
datafileuTorrent
UXFUML Exchange Format

V

Ext. Description Used by
Coq source file
Verilog source file
V3Victoria 3 save game fileVictoria 3
vvvv patchvvvv
V64[16] ROM image from an N64 cartritgeDoctorV64, Doctor V64 junior, Project 64 and other N64 emulators
Visual Basic .Net source fileVisual Basic .NET
[17] virtual machine settings file (in XML format)VirtualBox
[18] VirtualBox extension packageVirtualBox
Visual Basic .Net project fileVisual Basic .Net Express and Visual Studio 2003-2010 Project
Visual Basic Custom Control fileVisual Basic
VBScript script fileVBScript
Visual Basic eXtensionVisual Basic
Graphite – 2D and 3D draftingAshlar-Vellum
VocaListener voice scanner fileVocaListener Plug-in (Vocaloid3)
Targa bitmap graphicsmany raster graphics editors
Virtual Disk ImageVirtualBox
Visio web drawingMicrosoft Visio
Visio XML drawingMicrosoft Visio
Virtual Floppy DiskWindows Virtual PC (among others)
VIVirtual InstrumentLabVIEW
Hyper-V Exported Virtual MachineMicrosoft
[19] Virtual Disk fileVMware
Nokia message file formatText Message Editor (Nokia PC Suite)
[20] [21] Video ObjectDVD-R, DVD-RW
virtual machine configuration fileVMware
Valve packageSource engine games
Garmin Voice Processing Module
Visual Paradigm ProjectVisual Paradigm for UML
VPRVocal synthesizer track dataVocaloid 5
Hardware description languageAltera
LateX Beamer file containing verbatim commandsLaTeX Beamer
Veeam reversed incremental backup archiveVeeam software
Vellum SolidsAshlar-Vellum
Visio drawingMicrosoft Visio
[22] Visio drawingMicrosoft Visio
Visual Simulation ModelVisSim
Vocal synthesizer track dataVocaloid 2
VSQxVocal synthesizer track dataVocaloid 3, Vocaloid 4
Truevision Vista graphicsmany raster graphics editors
Microsoft Office add-in fileMicrosoft Visual Studio
VisualSVN Server repository backupVisualSVN Server
Valve Texture Format file[23] Valve Corporation
Visual Understanding Environment mapVisual Understanding Environment
VVVVVVVVVVVV map fileVVVVVV

W

Ext. Description Used by
WADDefault package format for Doom that contains sprites, levels, and game dataDoom and Doom II
WADPackage containing Wii Channel data, such as Virtual Console games. It is commonly used in homebrew to install custom channels, and can be installed with a WAD ManagerNintendo Wii
Sound format (Microsoft Windows RIFF WAVE)Media Player
Royalty-free video/audio containerHTML5
WINGame code for GameMaker gamesGameMaker
Game save file for The WitnessThe Witness
SpreadsheetLotus 1-2-3 version 2.x – Lotus Symphony 1.1+
SpreadsheetLotus 1-2-3 version 3.x
SpreadsheetLotus 1-2-3 version 1A – Lotus Symphony 1.0, Microsoft Works
WLWolfram Language package[24] [25]
WLMPWindows Live Moviemaker Project, contains paths from where the images/audios/videos of the project are located Windows Live Movie Maker[26]
WLSWolfram Script[27] Wolfram Language
Windows Media Audio file Advanced Systems Format
Windows Media Player databaseWindows Media Player
Windows MetaFile vector graphics
Windows Media Video file Advanced Systems Format
WoS bibliographic reference fileISI/Clarivate Analytics
WPSWii U plugin for aromaAroma Environnement (Wii U)
WSWhitespace programming language[28] Whitespace programming language
Text document
WUHBWii U Homebrew BundleAroma environnement (Wii U)

X

Ext. Description Used by
LEX source code file
XBasic Source code fileXbasic
x3d and xdart Formats
Xara graphics fileFiles created by Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (formerly Xara Xtreme and Xara Studio); early versions used the extension ART
eXtensible ARchivexar, 7-Zip
eXtensible Business Reporting Language instance fileeXtensible Business Reporting Language
Gimp image fileGNU Image Manipulation Program
Directory Manipulator for 32-bit Protected ModeXenotech Research Labs
Xenon – for Associative 3D ModelingAshlar-Vellum
Xbox 360 Executable File
[29] Microsoft Excel SpreadsheetMicrosoft Excel
Microsoft Excel 2007 Binary Workbook (BIFF12)(Spreadsheets)Microsoft Excel 2007 (see Microsoft Office 2007 file extensions)
Microsoft Excel 2007 Macro-Enabled Workbook (Spreadsheets)Microsoft Excel 2007 (see Microsoft Office 2007 file extensions)
[30] Office Open XML Workbook (Spreadsheets)Microsoft Excel 2007 (see Microsoft Office 2007 file extensions)
FastTracker 2 extended moduleAWAVE, Mod4Win, FastTracker, ImpulseTracker
eXtensible Markup Language file
eXtensible Music Format
eXtended PatternFastTracker 2
X-Plane system fileLaminar Research
Open XML Paper Specification / OpenXPSOpen standard document format initially created by Microsoft and similar in concept to Adobe PDF files
[31] [32] XML schema description
dataMicrosoft InfoPath file
[33] XSL Stylesheet
XSLT file
Microsoft InfoPath templateMicrosoft InfoPath
XML Sharable Playlist Format
XX-encoded file (ASCII)XXDECODE
XX-encoded file (ASCII)XXDECODE
Singer Embroidery FormatEmbroidermodder
Molecular coordinatesXMol, RasMol
a lossless data compression file format incorporating the LZMA/LZMA2 compression algorithms.xz

Y

Ext. Description Used by
YACC grammar fileYacc/Bison
[34] YML markup filedomain specific language output to XML
[35] YAML source fileYAML (data serialization language)

Z

Ext. Description Used by
[36] ZIP (file format)PKZip – WinZip – Mac OS X
REXX scripting language for ZOC_(software)ZOC terminal emulator
Script for Minecraft mod MineTweaker[37] and CraftTweaker[38] Minecraft Mods
ZStandard, a lossless data compression file format.zstd

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CGIS-SAIF Canadian geomatics interchange standard: spatial archive and interchange format: formal definition (release 3.2) . British Columbia Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy. December 1992 . 2020-09-25.
  2. Web site: Syntax . 2020-09-25 . sass-lang.com.
  3. Web site: SQL Server Compact and LINQ to SQL . Microsoft Docs . 12 January 2021.
  4. Web site: 2024-02-15 . All my progress and stuff is gone. Why? .
  5. Web site: Overview of JPEG . 2020-09-27 . jpeg.org.
  6. Web site: MIME Types and File Extensions . 2009-10-04 . XiphWiki . 2009-10-24 .
  7. 5334 . 10 . Ogg Media Types . Ogg Media Types --> . I. Goncalves . S. Pfeiffer . C. Montgomery . Chris Montgomery . 2008 . 10.17487/RFC5334.
  8. Web site: Alignment Fileformats . 22 May 2019 . 22 May 2019.
  9. Web site: SWF File Format Specification Version 10 . 2012-02-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120131083755/http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/swf/pdf/swf_file_format_spec_v10.pdf . 2012-01-31 .
  10. Web site: GNU tar 1.32: 8.1 Using Less Space through Compression . 2019-02-23 . GNU . 2019-08-11.
  11. Web site: COM, DCOM, and Type Libraries. 2020-05-31 . 2020-10-02 . Microsoft .
  12. Web site: What are temporary (.TMP) files and how do I delete them? . 2020-12-18 . fileinfo.com.
  13. Web site: BEP-0003: The BitTorrent Protocol Specification . Bittorrent.org . 2009-10-22.
  14. Web site: TypeScript Documentation: The Basics.
  15. Web site: Definition of tab-separated-values (tsv) . Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
  16. Web site: V64 File - What is a .v64 file and how do I open it? . 2023-11-26 . fileinfo.com.
  17. Web site: Oracle VM VirtualBox User Manual, Chapter 10. Technical background . Oracle Corporation . 28 December 2016.
  18. Web site: Oracle VM VirtualBox User Manual, Chapter 1.5. Installing VirtualBox and extension packs . Oracle Corporation . 28 December 2016.
  19. Web site: Virtual Disk Format 5.0 . December 20, 2011 . VMware .
  20. DVD FLLC (2009-02) DVD Book Construction – list of all available DVD Books, Retrieved on 2009-07-24
  21. DVD FLLC DVD Format Book – History of Supplements for DVD Books, Retrieved on 2009-07-24
  22. Web site: Introduction to the Visio file format (.vsdx) . 2015-03-09 . 2020-11-04 . Microsoft.
  23. Web site: Valve Texture Format . developer.valvesoftware . 2022-09-07.
  24. Web site: File ▶ New ▶ Package .
  25. Web site: Create a Package File .
  26. Web site: WLMP File Extension – What is a .wlmp file and how do I open it? . 2021-03-03 . fileinfo.com.
  27. Web site: File ▶ New ▶ Script .
  28. Web site: Whitespace Language - Online Decoder/Interpreter/Translator . 2024-04-25 . www.dcode.fr . en.
  29. Web site: [MS-XLS]

    Excel Binary File Format (.xls) Structure ]

    . 2020-10-15 . 2020-11-04 . Microsoft.
  30. Web site: Excel (.xlsx) Extensions to the Office Open XML SpreadsheetML File Format . 2020-02-19 . 2020-08-29.
  31. Web site: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures . 2012-04-05 . w3.org . 2020-09-25.
  32. Web site: W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes . 2012-04-05 . w3.org . 2020-09-25.
  33. Web site: The Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL) . 2020-11-04 . 2017-09-09 . w3.org.
  34. Web site: YML – Why a Markup Language?! . 2020-09-25 . 2019-11-02 . fdik.org.
  35. Web site: YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML) Version 1.2 . YAML.org . 2019-05-29.
  36. Web site: ITTF . ISO/IEC 21320-1:2015 Document Container File - Part 1: Core . 2015.
  37. Web site: Hebben . Stan . Tutorial:Introduction . Minetweaker 3 . 28 September 2014.
  38. Web site: Crafttweaker Documentation . crafttweaker.readthedocs.io . 2019-11-17.