In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 2017-12-14 08:22, Mayayana wrote:
"Tim wrote

| The type of a file and which app you'd like it to open with are
| items
| of file metadata and have no business being part of the filename.

| Many files have such type-identifiers included. E.g., a JPG file
| begins
| with JFIF, a WordPerfect file includes WPC in the first line, an MS .doc

| Then you've put the metadata inside the file, which is even worse.
|
| should be part of the file system.
This is the problem with mixing Mac and Windows
discussions. As I understand it, Mac stores file data
separately as a "resource fork". Mac users are not
expected to understand anything about files. That's
not the same as metadata.
[snip reminders about the mess we're dealing with]

Well done.

Bottom line: it's way past time for standards. There's no reason for
different OSs to handle filetype/tagging/etc differently.

But: they do. We have to live with it: to pick one, you'd have to
antagonise all the others. And (at least if it's Windows - I can't speak
for the others) that "one" wouldn't _remain_ consistent anyway.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Bother," said Pooh, as Windows crashed into piglet.