If you don't believe me, repeat these things yourself. if I -change- ".dms" to ".txt", its icon changes to that of a text document, and double-clicking it opens a file that looks THE SAME as the ones above. If I download the file using Safari, it downloads as "thisfilehasnoextension.dms".ĭouble click it and the finder tries to "extract" it, but cannot.īUT. If I add ".txt" to the file, it opens in Text Edit as before (but with no alert that it's an application).īut the resulting contents looks EXACTLY THE SAME. Or perhaps something else that is getting "mishandled" between the Apache server and the finder. it looks to be a text file of some kind, or something that was created and saved "as text". Quit Text Edit, and the file closes, too. It comes down without a visible file extension and appears to be a generic "document" file (no icon).ĭouble-clicking the file, the finder informs me it's an application and would I like to open it? I -did- download the file using another browser. I welcome correction from others in the know.Īgain, one can remove an extension (or create a file without one), but without the proper extension, the Mac won't know what to do with it. I know of at least one website from which an mp3 file will be downloaded as "" - essentially incomprehensible to the finder.Įdit the file to remove the ".html" at the end, and it magically becomes an mp3 file (as it is supposed to be). In that case, Safari has to "guess" as to what the file extension might be. I'm going to -guess- that the Apache web server mentioned above is not "handing off" such info when Safari downloads the files in question. This harkens back to the "type" and "creator" codes from the old, classic Mac OS. The user may not -see them-, but they still exist even though they are invisible (in the finder).Įven applications have extensions (".app") that are not normally seen by the user. I could be wrong, but I believe in OS X -EVERY- file has "an extension". Safari should not be doing anything here." The correct extension in all these cases is no extension.
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