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Re: Files without an extension

Subject: Re: Files without an extension
From: email@hidden
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:46:36 +0200


On 30 Sep 2008, at 08:07, Chris Idou wrote:

Does anyone know how OS-X and/or the Finder treats files without an extension?

If I have a plain text file without an extension, then changing the program that opens txt files will make it change for plain text files without an extension.

But if I have an RTF file without an extension, it doesn't open with the default TXT application, nor with the default RTF application, but instead always seems to open in TextEdit.

I suspect (but have no proof) that in the no extension/file type/ creator combination, LaunchServices falls back to the unix 'file' command to work out the type of file based on its contents and decides what app to launch.

Matt
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