Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: OS-X and missing file extensions Date: 1 May 2017 23:47:43 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <59040090$0$34646$b1db1813$15bdbe48@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net 3/Tb+J+P1aRLYTCHCZrxLwwSQEsoEaC8AS9jHjtBR0QUpZtdZO Cancel-Lock: sha1:nrdFZbRmdxknJ5lDpVqy3yI7r90= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:106064 On 2017-05-01, Your Name wrote: > On 2017-05-01 08:51:32 +0000, Lewis said: >> In message <59064c5a$0$10136$c3e8da3$e408f015@news.astraweb.com> JF >> Mezei wrote: >>> On 2017-04-30 16:37, nospam wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> com.apple.FinderInfo: >>>>>> 00000000 41 49 46 46 53 46 58 21 01 40 FF FF FF FF 00 00 >>>>>> |AIFFSFX!.@......| >>>> >>>> just what do you think AIFFSFX! is, if not type|creator ?? >>> >>> It is a blob of 32 bytes to the file system. There isn't a type and/or >>> creator fields. Yes, everyone can see that the first 8 bytes seem to >>> match the old type/creator fields, but that doesn't mean that OS-X >>> treats them as such. >> >> This will come as a shock to everyone playing along with the home game, >> but you are 100% entirely absolutely wrong. >> >> Type and Creator are still part of many files metadata and are still >> used in OS X. > > The "metadata" at the start (sometimes end) of a data file That's not what is being discussed above, silly. The creator and file type fields in the com.apple.FinderInfo output above are extended attributes (meta data that is *not* part of the file itself). -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR