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The Mac OS X file open/save dialogs do not hide the contents of the packages the same way the Finder does.

No other OS has this construct and writing cross-platform code to deal with it is more difficult than it should be.

I have had 2 big problems with this new package construct: Early versions of Mac OS X even hid this package extension from the user, but to this day, to see the contents of a package, you have to “right-click” or “control-click” on the package and select “show package contents” to see what’s inside. app folder looked and acted like a standard file and it could be double-clicked to launch the application. For example, applications and all the various libraries and resource files and executables were packaged into a.

The idea was that the insides of certain folders were only for system usage and should be hidden from users. With the release of OS X, Apple introduced a new kind of file - or really a folder that acted and looked like a file to the user - called a package.