It is a document that the finder does not have a translation to describe what it is. Generally every application has a "plist" file within the application that lists file extensions that the application supports and also gives a descriptive name to the file extension. This is how Word documents get associated with the .doc extension.
THere is a command line tool called file which might be able to tell you what kind of file you are looking at. The file command looks not only at the extension, but also the first 100 or so bytes of the file looking for a "magic" token describing the type of file. The file command is a standard UNIX/Linux commands. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Dear listers, > In most cases, a finder item can be either a folder, where it has no size in > the finder size column, it can be a file with an extension, and in that case > the file of course does have a readable size, but what, if finder says > document, in the kind, column? Is this a file? Is this a folder? I don't > understand the document type in finder. Anyone have an idea what this is? I > downloaded something and it is a document. Not rtf, doc, doc x, txt or > something, but a finder document. I took a picture of myself, or of the wall > behind me I don't know, lol, but that too becomes a document. Interested to > know what finder calls a document. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
