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Old December 14th 17, 03:39 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps
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Default Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?

In article , J. P. Gilliver (John)
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.

1. I think it does no _harm_ to have it as part of the filename, though.


true, but it's not needed if the info is elsewhere.

2. The use of metadata requires that it be _in the file_, not in
something the OS stores _alongside_ the file - since that can get
separated from it, or corrupted separately.


absolutely wrong.

with metadata in the file, you'd need to open each file just to find
out what type it is, a costly and completely unnecessary operation.

metadata should be stored in the file system itself, not alongside it,
which is what classic mac os did. it worked well.

And since there are
filetypes for which metadata _isn't_ in the file (plain text being the
obvious, but I think some forms of raw image, some hex dumps and the
like ...), that ship has sailed.


yep, it's too late to fix the mistakes of the past.

It's rather like those photo-album
softwares that use their own tags, which get confused if someone moves
one of the image files in explorer without telling the photo-album
software.


the point of asset managers is so users *don't* need to manually move
files around, however, since that is still a possibility, such apps
normally handle that without issue. if they don't, it's a bug.
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