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Re: Override a UTI?



On 2/15/08 7:56 PM, Julien Jalon said:

>OSTypes, file extensions, mime-types, etc. are "type tags". Type tags
>are the hints to find a file's type, they are not the type itself.
>
>Content type UTI, on the other hand, IS the type.
>
>LaunchServices is responsible to type a file by analyzing its tags.
>The real bug here is that LS is not very good when one tag designates
>two different types... especially if the tag is the file's extension.

Exactly.  My bug of this duplicates to a rather old bug: <rdar://
3772935>.  Hopefully it'll make it into 10.6.

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