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Files.FileUTITypes

Queries uniform type identifiers for this file.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
Files 2.9 ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Yes, on macOS ❌ No
MBS( "Files.FileUTITypes"; Path )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example
Path Native path to the file to check. "C:\test\me.jpg"

Result

Returns file types as text or error.

Description

Queries uniform type identifiers for this file.
For example a rtf file has the type public.rtf and going up the chain of types, it also has "public.text, public.data, public.item and public.content. A jpg image has types public.jpeg, public.image, public.data, public.item and public.content. So if you look for "public.image" in the types, you can identify that the file is an image file.

Examples

Queries types of a file

MBS( "Files.FileUTITypes"; "C:\test.txt" )

Example Databases

Blog Entries

This function checks for a license.

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 18th August 2014


Files.FileSize - Files.FolderSize