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>I have no clue what was happening here. MacOS has a handful of extensions on folders that make the Finder treat them as files instead of folders. The most com
by tpmoney 3y ago
>I have no clue what was happening here.
MacOS has a handful of extensions on folders that make the Finder treat them as files instead of folders. The most common is `.app` which is what almost every modern mac app that doesn't use a package installer is. It's how the "drag to install, drag to uninstall" magic works. The app, all it's bundled libraries and resources are all in this folder. Double click the "folder" and you launch the app because the inner folder structure is a convention that MacOS understands and so knows where the actual executable inside is.
There are a handful of others (notably their office suite ones `.pages` `.numbers` and `.keynote`) which do this too
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoThanks, now I know. I've basically never used a Mac and was only able to help because of experience with Windows and Linux. I think the folder in question just had a .txt or similar text document like extension. Maybe it was a script file extension.