[Virtualacorn-list] thumbs.db RISCOS filetype equivalent?

[David J. Ruck]

On 27/01/2016 16:59, Roger Darlington wrote:
> Sorry Dave, I think made a typo which thus posed the wrong question.
>
> I didn't mean to say '.tct' but 'txt' (it's my poor eyesight now, I
> keep hitting the wrong keys and I cant see my mistake on the screen).

Ah.

> The Windows files are 'thumbs.db'.
> When RO sees them, that adds .txt to the end (not .tct)

That's confusing; RISC OS / VA shouldn't touch the file on it's own.
The only time file extensions are added on the PC side, is if you set 
the file type from the RISC OS side.

> But I don't know what the RO filetype should be?
> [thumbs.db are small picture files (in some format or other I know not
> what)].

It doesn't need any type set up as RISC OS can't do anything useful with 
it. It should just appear with a whatever the default type VA uses for 
things it doesn't understand, and as long as that isn't changed it 
shouldn't be affected.

Has anyone else seen such behaviour?

Cheers
---David
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