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


  • Subject: Setting default application to an app whose creator type is "????"
  • From: Brennan Young <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:57:25 +0000 (UTC)

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?

--
Brennan Young

Someone asked Mulla Nasrudin what his house was like. In reply he
brought this man a brick, saying: 'It is just a collection of these.'

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