[Macpartners] setting file Kind under OS X

[Sue Felshin]

At 5:31 PM -0400 10/14/05, Kerem B Limon wrote:
>Quoting Sue Felshin <sfelshin at csail.mit.edu>:
>>Thanks, but this isn't enough to convince Eudora that a file is a 
>>mail folder.
>
>Well, a file is a file not a folder. I think you mean mailbox, which is what
>Eudora calls collections of messages in a file.

Right, but to the Mac OS, it looks like a file.

>You shouldn't have to open mailbox files with an app. As long as 
>they are in the proper Eudora settings directory (location varies on 
>installer and platform), it should be able to detect them. Is this 
>not the case?

Yes: this is _not_ the case.

>>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.

Works like a charm.  Thanks, Albert!

-Sue