Advanced Filesystem metadata handling

[miggins]

I'd like to see functionality in Mac OS X that would semi-automatically translate filesystem metadata (like file type) between different storage systems.

Ie. If I save a Photoshop file to an HFS(+) volume it should have it's file type code set, but if I copy that file to somewhere else via SMB (say a Windows computer) since neither SMB or the other file system support HFS type codes the file should have it's name changed to include .psd at the end. This should also work when directly saving from an application like Photoshop, not just when copying using the Finder.

What it shouldn't do is put ._ files everywhere. In some ways those files are a good idea, but they should at least be optional - I don't like having to clean up the other filesystem afterwards.

Another optional feature would be removing the extension when copying to another filesystem that supports file type information.

Ie. I copy something.txt from SMB to an HFS volume and the type is set to TEXT, with the file name changed to something (just an example). This would probably be off by default and easily enabled for Die hard Mac users.

[WillyT]

I still use my Amiga 2000. A lot of the stuff I'm dragging over to the
G4 doesn't have file extentions! So I was having to go back and call them up in the workbench to see their icons to discover their filetype(all Amiga **** data execpt date and rwed are stored in a filename.info file that contains the icon, filetype/application, and tooltypes etc.)

Then I found the "file" terminal command which uses a UN*X etc/magic file to determine exactly what a file is. It even tells me if it is an Amiga app.

What I think would be nice is if the Finder lacking any info such as extentions, TYPE and CREATER codes would use this magic. Even if this was only available in the File Info window it would be a great help. I have hundreds of disks of unidentified picture, animation, and music files. :confused: