Re: Changing 'Kind' description for extension

In article <1iowpsh.11tkqil1qaxgk9N%black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jon B
<black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Stimpy <stimpy1997uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there any way I can change the 'Kind' description for all files of a
given
type; ideally so OSX will remember that, forever, all files of extension xxx
will have the same description?

I'd imagine, if you do a 'Get Info' on one of the files, go to open
with, change to the relevent application, and then click "Change All..."
and it should fix them all to the same.

That's what is supposed to happen, yes. But it often doesn't work.
Recently I had a bunch of small Flash movies (.flv) and when
double-clicked they would open in VLC. I wanted them to open in QT
player instead. The Get Info dialog did not offer this as an option on
the popup menu, so I had to select Other and navigate through the
Applications folder to select it. But even then it only worked for the
file I started on. If I chose the Change All option the menu reverted
to VLC immediately, and even the file I had selected remained
unchanged.
After fighting with this for a while I gave up and resorted to dragging
the files onto QT Player in the Dock to open them.

This is a persistent problem with OS X and has never worked properly
since OS 9.

Phil Taylor
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