Re: Tracking which app created a file?

TaliesinSoft (taliesinsoft@xxxxxx) wrote:
[snip]
: I just now ran a brief test, creating a document in Pages, saving that
: document to my desktop, changing the suffix from ".pages" to ".doc" and then
: double clicking on the document which then Microsoft Word attempted,
: unsuccessfully, to open.

: I followed the above by doing the same with a TextEdit document, changing the
: suffix from ".rtf" to ".doc" and it opened in Microsoft Word.

: Does that suggest that the type and creator codes are not used by Pages or
: TextEdit?

Possibly, but it could also suggest the system is set to have Word
open .rtf files by default. Any modern word processor should be able to
open that file type.

Re: .pages to .doc - .doc is the default Word format, so it's logical
that Word should launch. However, without the ability to translate the
file formats (simply changing the extension, of course, is insufficient
here), it is similarly logical that Word could not open the file.

It would be intersting to see what would happen on a system that had never
had Word installed. If the creator code is in place, I'd expect Text Edit
to launch but fail to open the .doc.

Speaking more fully to your question, I think that changing the extension
of a file would over ride the default operation involving creation codes.
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