> While that could certainly be, I'm not so sure about that anymore; > the > registrar already does the hard part of scanning the MIME type, and I > don't think it's much of a problem to trigger that process from the > outside. > In the case of Tracker, it could scan the MIME type of all files that > don't have a BEOS:TYPE attribute yet, while populating a directory of > an attribute enabled r/w file system. Note in a multiuser setup it might not have the rights to write them. François.