[Macpartners] setting file Kind under OS X
Sue Felshin
sfelshin at csail.mit.edu
Fri Oct 14 16:58:51 EDT 2005
At 9:55 AM -0400 10/13/05, Gurukarm Khalsa wrote:
>Sue, are they all looking for the same application? I think,
>actually, it doesn't matter - just single-click any one of the group
>to select it, go to File -> get info (Cmd + I) - there's a section
>called "Open With" where you can choose an application to open that
>file type. There's a button for "Use this application to open all
>documents like this: Change all..."
>
>Even if you have a number of different applications to change the
>files to, this only takes a few seconds, and is really effective.
Thanks, but this isn't enough to convince Eudora that a file is a mail folder.
At 2:01 PM -0400 10/14/05, Albert Willis wrote:
>If you want to change the type and creator of a file, you can use
>XRay
>(<http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/>http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/)
>to do so.
I'll try this next.
-Sue
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