Invisible wrote:
> 
> A very stupid default, IMHO. I changed that long ago.
> 

Incredibly. I hate getting on someone's system and finding that I can't 
read the extensions. I know the rationale behind it, but in practice 
with Windows the extension is part of the file name. On other (Mac) 
systems, the file has a separate fork that has metadata about the file, 
files can't share the same name,so you don't get two files that are 
practically indistinguishable from each other.

>> If you are looking at the icon listing (rather
>> than the detailed listing) there's absolutely no way to visually
>> distinguish which file is which.
> 
> I have mine default to details. Occasioanlly I change it to thumbnail. 
> (Possibly the *only* genuinely useful feature M$ has ever come up with. 
> I wonder which competitor they stole it from?)
> 

ACDSee? ThumbsPlus?  hmmm...

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