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Re: changing the "open with application" value for a file
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Re: changing the "open with application" value for a file


  • Subject: Re: changing the "open with application" value for a file
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 19:35:52 -0400
  • Thread-topic: changing the "open with application" value for a file

On 5/23/09 7:25 PM, "M Pulis" <email@hidden> wrote:

>>
>>> OK, so where do the types come from?
>>
>> If the file is created on a Mac application, the creator type and
>> file type are automatically generated by the mac application.
>>
>
> beware of that assumption!
>
> An app can create a file with type and creator blank or any 4char
> value. that is how we have created export files that open in other
> apps. there is no way to tell we created that file.

That's an excellent point. The creator code/UTI/File Extension does NOT
identify the creating application, only the application that should be
opening said file.

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We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem.
- Chesty Puller, USMC


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