macOS considers typescript files to be MPEG-2 Transport Stream - QuickLook and Spotlight do not work

Hello,

macOS considers typescript files to be of type "MPEG-2 Transport Stream." This prevents QuickLook and Spotlight (system search) from working properly. Please address this given macOS is a major platform for devs. Thank you.

[DanielRosenwasser]

This sounds like feedback that you'd ideally want to leave with someone at Apple on the macOS/Spotlight team, not TypeScript. It's not within our means to change the way that Spotlight works.

I see where you're coming from for sure. But you are using the same extension as another somewhat popular file-format, that's not so much Apple's problem. I'd be interested in what others have to say, but I will send an email to Apple - just don't expect it to go very far.

[kitsonk]

The only solution that would be in the gift of TypeScript is to change the extension. I don't think that is really practical or viable.

One thing to consider though @DanielRosenwasser is that there is no official application/typescript media (MIME) type. It maybe worth considering registering that, as a lot of libraries key off the official list. As far as I can tell though, there is no official list of extension mapping to media types, though there are a couple big ones. In fact, the .NET Library currently doesn't contain a .ts entry.

[typescript-bot]

Automatically closing this issue for housekeeping purposes. The issue labels indicate that it is unactionable at the moment or has already been addressed.

[justinlevi]

Found a solution to this today:
https://gregbrown.co/code/typescript-quicklook

Definitely not the cleanest, but it works.

Here's my setup for quicklook as well
http://justinlevi.github.io/blog/2016/11/21/quick-look-essentials

[harrisoncramer]

This solution no longer works on Big Sur as the .plist file is Read-Only. If anyone has found a solution, that would be great, all my Typescript files look like VLC video files 🤦

[jimmy-zhening-luo]

Imagine Apple ever listening to user feedback 😂 Years later, this thread in a Microsoft-owned repo on a Microsoft subsidiary's website for a Microsoft-sponsored/-led programming language has gotten more responses (>0) from representatives than dozens of discussions.apple.com of us poor users howling into the void about iOS (and apparently even macOS) providing no facility for selection of file extension associations. Woe is me for having no better mobile phone option than the iPhone, for otherwise I would never subject myself to this sort of paternalistic abandonment. May I never complain the next time I have to edit 20 regkeys just so Windows gives me the privilege of being allowed to save files in My Documents after uninstalling OneDrive, for at least those regkeys may be edited!

[jackpunt]

FWIW: my comment in (#issuecomment-2680167818) includes bash code (find,xargs,grep) to search .ts files.

(I didn't see this thread/issue until recently...)