Re: I have a question.
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:22 pm
I use OS X and like having extensions showing too. Exceptions are applications and video files.
Back in the olden Classic Mac OS days, files didn't have extensions. Instead they had Creator/Type codes which were just metadata stored in the files "resource fork" which was again, another Mac OS thing. Thankfully OS X came along and didn't need this stuff and 10 years later Types and Creators and Resource Forks are all but gone, but still are used more often than you'd want. Since I came over to the OS X country on a Windows 98 ship I don't miss them at all. Extensions are better. I like them. I find them descriptive. I keep them. Even though a lot of hardcore Mac users don't like them at all. At least they made Windows/OS X interoperability much easier than back when you would copy a file, which was mostly resource fork, to Windows and it would just die. It would lose its resources and become a useless extensionless file. But Mac users might not realize this so they wouldn't think twice. Now that OS X has extensions we don't have to worry. I can send any one of you a file and it will work as long as they have a program designed to open that file kind.
Viva la OS X. Viva la revolucion! Or whatever.
Back in the olden Classic Mac OS days, files didn't have extensions. Instead they had Creator/Type codes which were just metadata stored in the files "resource fork" which was again, another Mac OS thing. Thankfully OS X came along and didn't need this stuff and 10 years later Types and Creators and Resource Forks are all but gone, but still are used more often than you'd want. Since I came over to the OS X country on a Windows 98 ship I don't miss them at all. Extensions are better. I like them. I find them descriptive. I keep them. Even though a lot of hardcore Mac users don't like them at all. At least they made Windows/OS X interoperability much easier than back when you would copy a file, which was mostly resource fork, to Windows and it would just die. It would lose its resources and become a useless extensionless file. But Mac users might not realize this so they wouldn't think twice. Now that OS X has extensions we don't have to worry. I can send any one of you a file and it will work as long as they have a program designed to open that file kind.
Viva la OS X. Viva la revolucion! Or whatever.