At 7:17 PM -0500 4/18/07, Les Mikesell wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> And how does that work out for you when you keep your multimedia files
>>> on exteral USB drives for portability among linux/mac/windows boxes?
>> I guess it depends on the file system. If it is a FAT file system,
>> then you are probably stuck with something like the present system.
>> If it is a system that supports extended file attributes, then you
>> only need to update the attributes for new/changed files. Now, if
>> the idea turns out to be a practical one, then hopefully it will
>> also be supported on the MAC. Two out of three aren't bad...
>
> This is exactly what Apple *used* to do.
Until someone realized that you might use the same file with more than
one application?
No, with separate file types and creators that always worked well. Until
NeXT took over and the (weird mutant BSD) *nixheads ruled and they tried to
force a switch to the more modern file extensions, where a single
user-changable thing means both the kind of data and the app that should
open it. Since that didn't work at all, file types and creators still saw
plenty of use. I think there is support for mime-typing now, but I don't
know if any magic is used.
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