Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #10067, comment 13


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Jan 3, 2021, 2:00:58 AM (4 years ago)
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  • Ticket #10067, comment 13

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    44Extensions are still actively used in all major systems. External storage (Git, other OS filesystems) often do not support MIME types and types are lost. One of annoying examples is Git operations on Haiku repository that destroy MIME types. Files do not exists only inside one OS. Files are to be exchanged.
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    6 File type detection by content is not possible in general and may be resource-consuming. Different file types may have the same format (ogg/ogv, mp4/m4a, zip/docx/jar, etc.).
     6File type detection by content is not possible in general and may be resource-consuming. Different file types may have the same format (ogg/ogv, mp4/m4a, zip/docx/jar, python/meson, etc.).
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    88I think that file extensions should be used to detect file type if present.