Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 1999 06:18:32 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Resource forks and such |
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allbery@kf8nh.apk.net wrote: > That said, the problem with storing the metadata with the file is that > on a multiuser OS different people may want different associations, > different icons, etc.for the same file. So it has to be stored per > user, not per file.
This comes up often so I'll drop in the obvious... you'd store the file _type_ in the metadata section.
I don't think that needs to vary between users.
-- Jamie
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