Re: saving/opening files in 10.4 vrs 10.6
Re: saving/opening files in 10.4 vrs 10.6
- Subject: Re: saving/opening files in 10.4 vrs 10.6
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:29:54 -0400
- Thread-topic: saving/opening files in 10.4 vrs 10.6
Title: Re: saving/opening files in 10.4 vrs 10.6
On 9/8/10 10:33 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
Actually, Uniform Type Identifiers are what determines the file type
in 10.6, while file type and creator codes are still used in 10.4. The
reason that the wrong application is opening the file is because TEP
is probably just assigning a generic text UTI, and the default application
for opening generic text files is TextEdit. The solution is to have TEP
assign its own unique UTI to files that it saves, but this practice seems
to be taking its sweet time in being implemented.
You can’t actually assign a UTI. You can set up your application to use/declare them, but in the end, it is the file extension + what launch services has set to handle that extension that determines what the UTI data is. It’s a really braindead system, and you can have a lot of fun with Mac OS X 10.6 users if you want, just by randomly changing file extensions.
The only exception to this, the only one is when you set the default application as being different for a specific file in the finder’s “Get Info” window. That then creates a usro resource.
It’s highly stupid that they don’t use UTI’s better.
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