At 7:17 PM -0500 4/18/07, Les Mikesell wrote: >Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>>> And how does that work out for you when you keep your multimedia files >>>> on exteral USB drives for portability among linux/mac/windows boxes? >>> I guess it depends on the file system. If it is a FAT file system, >>> then you are probably stuck with something like the present system. >>> If it is a system that supports extended file attributes, then you >>> only need to update the attributes for new/changed files. Now, if >>> the idea turns out to be a practical one, then hopefully it will >>> also be supported on the MAC. Two out of three aren't bad... >> >> This is exactly what Apple *used* to do. > >Until someone realized that you might use the same file with more than >one application? No, with separate file types and creators that always worked well. Until NeXT took over and the (weird mutant BSD) *nixheads ruled and they tried to force a switch to the more modern file extensions, where a single user-changable thing means both the kind of data and the app that should open it. Since that didn't work at all, file types and creators still saw plenty of use. I think there is support for mime-typing now, but I don't know if any magic is used. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
