Re: 'Open with . . .' in SL Finder

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:12:06 -0400, Chris Ridd wrote
(in article <7hmrhmF2tj8reU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

On 2009-09-20 14:58:56 +0100, J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:47:15 -0400, zoara wrote
(in article
<125261908275146421.257105me18-privacy.net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:25:45 -0400, Rob wrote
(in article <tymtm.80969$OO7.15256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Does anyone know how to edit the list of apps that appear? I now
have 19
attached to .pdf, and can't seem to get one I want (Entourage) to
stick.

Thanks, Rob

Apple has changed the way the Finder views documents. Type/creator is
no
longer used. Send them feedback on the issue. I have.

I thought only Creator was deprecated. Have they removed Type binding as
well?



If you use a utility such as SuperGetInfo to look at files created by Apple
apps such as Pages you'll see that they have no type or creator info.
Type/Creator is gone, no longer supported by Apple.

While it is the case that Pages et al don't write Type or Creator
codes, that doesn't mean they're no longer supported in general.

You're misrepresenting <http://db.tidbits.com/article/10537>.

I hadn't read that. What I was saying was what I'd got from Apple Support
after I called in to report that my files no longer opened in the apps I
wanted them to.


I just saved a file with no extension from TW (hang the cost) - it had
a type of 'TEXT' and a creator of '!Rch' according to
/usr/bin/GetFileInfo.

Double-clicking it opens it in TextEdit due to that type code.

Quite correct... If I double-click a file with a .RTF extension _which I had,
before installing SL, opened and saved repeatedly in Word_ it opens in
_TextEdit_, not in Word. If I open it in Word and then save it, _then_ it
opens in Word when I double-click it. I have _years_ of files which I had
been working on in various applications other than those that Apple considers
standard... and in order to get them to open in those applications again I
have open each one and then save it again. One at a time.


Curiously, setting the type code to something unknown (I chose 'frob')
caused double-clicking to open it in TW. That creator code, presumably.





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