Re: *.mid vs *.midi

[Hans Aberg]

On 16 May 2008, at 08:23, Graham Percival wrote:

> OSX *isn't* stupid, but it pretends to
> be.  I have no clue what the Aqua people were up to.  :(

The underlying UNIX does not care about file extensions: it is the  
Finder program that does. On UFS (UNIX file system), the meta-data is  
stored in files starting with "._", for example "foo.midi" may have a  
file named "._foo.midi". Then the opening precedences seem to be:  
first metadata, then file name extension, then perhaps looking into  
the file and determining the type.

This behavior can be changed from the Finder "Get Info" dialog of the  
file and from within some program, but I find convenient using the  
program:
  http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/

  Hans Åberg