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Damaged how?
Authored by: Anonymous on Jan 19, '02 01:07:59AM

All right, let's think here people. If Mr. Jobs had really wanted to intentionally "obfuscate" the files' metadata, such that other applications could not as easily "tell" they were indeed jpeg images, don't you think the software might also have gone so far as to remove the more-obvious ".jpg" extensions on the files? At least in my iPhoto library, most of the JPEG files I've imported were simply renamed to xx.jpg, though the type code is stripped off.

An interesting sidenote, however... I have also imported many single-layer photoshop files into iPhoto, and those have all retained their type codes of "8BPS".

I suspect the behavior of iPhoto that everyone is speculating about is not at all intentional, but an unintended side effect of OS X's emphasis on file extension over metadata.



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