{"version":"2.1.301","anchor":"many-more-document-and-archive-extensions-treated-as-binary","canonical_anchor":"many-more-document-and-archive-extensions-treated-as-binary","heading":"More document, spreadsheet and archive file types are treated as binary","tier":"notice","area":"File Reading","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301\/e\/many-more-document-and-archive-extensions-treated-as-binary","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301","markdown":"### More document, spreadsheet and archive file types are treated as binary\n\nClaude Code now treats files such as .dmg, .apk, .xlsm, .pptm, .numbers and .epub as binary rather than text\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code keeps a list of file types it treats as binary, meaning not plain text. The list now also includes:\n\n- .dmg and .apk\n\n- .docm, .dotx and .dotm\n\n- .xlsm, .xlsb, .xltx and .xltm\n\n- .pptm, .ppsx, .ppsm, .potx and .potm\n\n- .numbers and .epub\n\nBefore, the office-file part of the list stopped at formats such as .pdf, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and the OpenDocument formats.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese files are now likely handled as binary instead of being read as text, which would only produce unreadable content.\n\n- Area: File Reading\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}