CNET

New/Revised Developer Release Notes: File Name Extension Guidelines; Kernel Extensions

Apple has released several new and revised Developer Release Notes. We post two examples below. Because of our recent coverage of the file name extensions vs. Type/Creator controversy, we offer an ...
OS X Daily

Restart Spotlight on Mac with an Unorthodox Easy Method

Restarting and relaunching Spotlight on the Mac have been helpful troubleshooting tricks since the debut of the search engine to the MacOS platform. Often if you restart Spotlight, rebuild the ...
CNET

The Type/Creator vs. File Name Extension debate

The latest issues of the MDJ explore a continuing controversy with Mac OS X. While not a new controversy, a new feature in Mac OS X 10.1 brings it to the foreground again. The articles are too long to ...
Bleeping Computer

How to show filename extensions on a Mac

1How to view file name extensions for all files on a Mac 2How to view file name extensions for a individual file on a Mac The default setting for Mac OS is to not display a file's extension. For those ...
Simon Fraser University

Using Version 8 Short Filename Extensions on FAT-style Disk Drives

By default, Version 8 filenames are appended with an eight-character filename extension. For example, a Version 8 filename extension for a data set on the UNIX, OpenVMS, OS/2, and Windows hosts is ...