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

[Alan Adams]

In message <56A92642.506 at druck.org.uk>
          "David J. Ruck" <druck at druck.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Maybe is happens when pbacking up folders of pictures.

> Has anyone else seen such behaviour?

> Cheers
> ---David


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