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Old Nov 25, 2013 | 11:42 pm
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Originally Posted by cblaisd
Absolutely on hidden files. Agree. Should have mentioned.

I can mildly sort of understand why MS would default to not showing hidden files, but never did understand the justification for thinking "regular" users should default to not seeing the actual file name and extension.
The justification was that back in 1995, Macs didn't have file extensions, and it was seen as a more user friendly solution -- despite being annoying on old Macs.
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