[Macpartners] setting file Kind under OS X

[Kerem B Limon]

Quoting Sue Felshin <sfelshin at csail.mit.edu>:

> Hi.  I have a passle of files whose Kind is incorrect after being
> restored after a disk failure.  The applications they (should) belong
> to don't recognize them and refuse to open them, but the contents of
> the files (data forks, anyway) seems okay.  In OS 9 or earlier, I
> would have used ResEdit to manually fix the Kind, but I can't find a
> version of ResEdit that works with OS X.  Can anyone tell me how to
> fix this problem in OS X?
>

Right-click (control-click) affected file, and in the "Open with..." options,
choose the application you want to associate with from the drop-down list. It
will need to be installed on the machine (Classic or not).

-Kerem

> Thanks,
> Sue
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Kerem B. Limon
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