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Re: How to set application which opens a file via Applescript?
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Re: How to set application which opens a file via Applescript?


  • Subject: Re: How to set application which opens a file via Applescript?
  • From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 07:04:33 -0400

On Aug 30, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Yvan KOENIG wrote:

>
>> Le 2015/08/30 à 12:36, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> a écrit :
>>
>> You can change the application which opens a file via "Get Info" but how can you do it via Applescript?
>>
>> Changing the "file type", "file creator," and "original item" properties via a finder script doesn't do it.  I notice that when you change it using "Get Info" the "kind" property changes but that property is "read only" to the finder script.
>>
>> Steve
>
> I'm not sure that I understand well your question.
> Maybe this may help :
>
> set aFile to (path to desktop as text) & "erreur Numbers.rtf"
>
> set path2app to path to application id "com.barebones.textwrangler"
> tell application "Finder" to open file aFile using path2app
>
> It opens the text file in TextWrangler. Replace the id by the BBEdit one to achieve your goal.

Sorry I wasn't clear.  Using your example, I want to permanently change the application which opens "erreur Numbers.rtf" to textwrangler when I double-click on it from the finder.  I don't want to open "erreur Numbers.rtf" via a script.

 I can change this via "Get Info" from the finder but I would like to change it via a script.

Hope that's more clear :)

Steve


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