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Mac OS XвЂ™s Launch Services facility maintains a database of such claims, which it uses to determine the binding that operates when you double-click a document in the Finder. An application bundle contains an important file called ist that lets it вЂњclaimвЂќ ownership of certain file types. In the Unix way, a documentвЂ™s file extension just says what type it is ownership of that type is another matter. File extensions are still with us, though.) For example, a text file would typically be a вЂњain-textвЂќ, which is a subclass of вЂњpublic.textвЂќ. ItвЂ™s invisible metadata, like a type code, but itвЂ™s longer, it carries more information, and it can be part of a hierarchy. (In early 2005 Apple introduced another way of specifying a fileвЂ™s type: the uniform type identifier, or UTI. Still, they do have one great advantage: they are вЂњjust text,вЂќ so they can be seen and changed.

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Adam provided a brief but trenchant critique many years ago (see вЂњ Mac OS X 10.1: The Main Features,вЂќ ). Many users regard Mac OS XвЂ™s implementation of file extensions as somewhat lame вЂ“ theyвЂ™re ugly and incomprehensible now you see them, now you donвЂ™t you can change them, but your hand gets slapped. The Unix approach (or what IвЂ™m calling вЂњUnixвЂќ for purposes of this article its history actually goes back to DEC and DOS and is in fact merely optional in Unix) is to use file extensions, which are abbreviations following a period in a documentвЂ™s name. For a deep and fascinating historical discussion of this mechanism, see TidBITS publisher Adam EngstвЂ™s interview with its inventor, Bruce Horn (вЂњ The Mac at 20: An Interview with Bruce Horn,вЂќ ).

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For example, looking on the Desktop of my Mac OS 9 machine, I see two ordinary plain text files (type code вЂњTEXTвЂќ) one belongs to SimpleText (creator code вЂњttxtвЂќ), the other to BBEdit (creator code вЂњR*chвЂќ).Д¬reator and type codes are invisible to the user thatвЂ™s good because theyвЂ™re out of your way, but power users require a third-party utility to manage them. One advantage of this approach is that it lets applications share documents of a common type (itself expressed as another four-letter value, the type code). The venerable Mac way of binding a document to an application is the creator code, a four-letter (actually integer) value, unique to an application, attached as metadata to a document. Now, in Snow Leopard, users and developers are complaining that the Unix way is being allowed to run roughshod over the Mac way. Since the very first day of the very first version of Mac OS X, there has been an uneasy detente between the Unix way of binding documents to applications and the former Mac way, inherited from the early days of the Mac OS. When you double-click a document in the Finder, how does the system decide what application should open it? The relationship between a document and its owning application is called a preferred application binding. #1582: iOS 15.0.1 and iPadOS 15.0.1, Apple Watch Series 7 dates, cautionary tale about backups, using Live Text and Safari extensions.#1583: Ten years without Steve Jobs, iOS 15.0.2, Exif and Visual Lookup in Photos, iPadOS 15 multitasking, easier 2FA codes.#1584: New MacBook Pros, new AirPods and HomePod mini colors, Monterey release date, notification grouping tip, Find My story.

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#1585: macOS 12 Monterey and iOS 15.1 released, 1Password secure password sharing, choosing the right chart in Numbers, Apple device updates in Software Update.#1586: Apple Q4 2021 financial results, Hide My Email tutorial, Windows on M1 Macs, mењњharge battery, Insta360 GO 2 action cam.

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