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Open RTF files in Safari
Authored by: tim1724 on Apr 03, '03 01:16:15PM

That's because an RTFD "file" actually is a directory. The finder isn't doing any "conversion" aside from changing the filename. The Finder knows that a folder with a ".rtfd" extension is supposed to be shown as a file, so it shows it as one. When the extension isn't ".rtfd" then the Finder doesn't know that it's an RTFD document so it shows it as a normal folder.

Note that if you want to see the contents of the folder even when the extension is ".rtfd" you can right-click on it and choose "Show Package Contents" to open the directory.

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