Re: Imported UTI taking precedence over Exported UTI
Re: Imported UTI taking precedence over Exported UTI
- Subject: Re: Imported UTI taking precedence over Exported UTI
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:28:44 -0700
> On Jul 1, 2016, at 15:22 , Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Jul 1, 2016, at 13:58 , Matthew LeRoy <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Am I missing something, or is it really as broken as it sounds?
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> I don’t think you’re missing anything, but “broken” isn’t quite the right word.
What's broken is that macOS uses filename extensions as type information at all, especially since there's no governing body for filename extensions. It would be much better for there to be volume metadata with the UTI (I vaguely recall an OS called "Mac OS" that did that).
And before anyone objects on interoperability grounds, it would be trivial to map well-known extensions to the metadata to be written when a file is brought in, and outgoing files are almost always well-known and will likely have the appropriate extension, anyway (e.g. zip).
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Rick Mann
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