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Re: Setting default application to an app whose creator type is "????"

Subject: Re: Setting default application to an app whose creator type is "????"
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:21:34 -0600
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I have found that the 'default application' is not as versatile as one might hope. You can set the default application for individual files to be different from the 'global' default application. However, this does not seem to be scriptable, in other words, there is no 'default application' property of a file.

You can assign a file creator code to a bundled application in OS X. Just open the file Info.plist in the application bundle's Contents folder with Property List Editor. The "creator code" is the key "CFBundleSignature". You can find more info in the document "Runtime Configuration Guidlines" at ... http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ BPRuntimeConfig/index.html

But I don't know what good this does! AFAIK, there is no way to assign this signature (creator) code to a document so that you can link a document to a particular application.

On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Brennan Young wrote:

Hi folks,
Anyone else miserable about the ungraceful decay of type/creator
codes?
I have a filetype which by default opens in app "XYZ" but I also occasionally get files of the same type which I want to open in app "PQR". I want to set up a folder action so that when I add these latter mentioned files to it, their creator type gets set automatically.
In other words, I can't just tweak the system default.
In the old days I could just set the creator code, but unfortunately
app
"PQR" is a java app and its creator code is "????".
(FWIW 'XYZ' is 'BitTorrent' and 'PQR' is 'Azureus')
I see that 'info for' now includes this thing called 'default application' an alias to the app itself (smart!)... but I can find no way of setting it.

Is this possible?


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