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 September 28th 2009, 07:14 PM
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 Legendary  Group: Members Posts: 844 Joined: November 8 '03 From: New York, NY Member No.: 4,774  |
QUOTE(teflon @ September 28th 2009, 03:19 AM)  This one's Apple's fault, but the only ones who can fix it are the developers. UTIs are better than Creator Codes, but it's going to take a while for devs to get around to adding UTI codes to their apps and restore the old functionality. Right now it's mainly Apple's apps with the UTIs, so things are going to default to them... Ah, I see. Good link. But while waiting for the developers to catch up is there a way of instructing the Finder to open certain file types with a particular application as a general rule, instead of file-by-file? -------------------- Work: MacPro 2x3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon/8GB RAM/ATI HD4870,1GB VRAM/Snow Leopard/Vista64
Home: MacPro 2x2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon/6GB RAM/ATI HD4870,1GB VRAM/Snow Leopard/Vista64 Travel: Clamshell G3 266MHz/OS 9 |
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September 28th 2009, 07:36 PM
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 of the Popeye Analogy Group: Members Posts: 8,812 Joined: May 31 '05 From: London, UK Member No.: 7,389 |
Yeah. You can get info on a file of the type you want to change, and then under the open with section, there's a drop list of the recommended apps or "other..." and hen below that there's a button which says "change all..." which will change all files with that extension from now on to open with whatever app.
Im not a hundred percent on how you'd go about deconstructing that rule in the future, though. -------------------- Polytetrafluoroethylene to my friends.
Macbook Pro - C2D 2.4Ghz / 4Gb RAM / WD Scorpio Black 320GB ( 255GB OSX v 42GB XP ) / Geforce 8600M GT 256Mb / 15.4" Cube - G4 1.7Ghz 7448 / 1.5Gb RAM / Samsung Spinpoint 250GB / Geforce 6200 256Mb We won! Apple offer the 17" with a matte screen! Well... at a price... |
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September 28th 2009, 08:00 PM
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Corybantic Character Conquistador Group: Forum Moderators Posts: 5,730 Joined: November 16 '04 Member No.: 6,677 |
QUOTE(The Liberator @ September 28th 2009, 08:36 PM) How would you do that then? Run an app that does defragging. --Eric |
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September 28th 2009, 08:45 PM
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Legendary Group: Members Posts: 844 Joined: November 8 '03 From: New York, NY Member No.: 4,774 |
QUOTE(teflon @ September 28th 2009, 06:36 PM) Yeah. You can get info on a file of the type you want to change, and then under the open with section, there's a drop list of the recommended apps or "other..." and hen below that there's a button which says "change all..." which will change all files with that extension from now on to open with whatever app. Im not a hundred percent on how you'd go about deconstructing that rule in the future, though. Thanks teflon. I'll give that a try. Saves some aggravation with powerpoint and photoshop e-mail files. -------------------- Work: MacPro 2x3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon/8GB RAM/ATI HD4870,1GB VRAM/Snow Leopard/Vista64
Home: MacPro 2x2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon/6GB RAM/ATI HD4870,1GB VRAM/Snow Leopard/Vista64 Travel: Clamshell G3 266MHz/OS 9 |
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September 28th 2009, 11:15 PM
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QUOTE(Sneaky Snake @ September 28th 2009, 04:50 PM) The OS X install is quite old, about as old as Leopard. Its the family computer so I can't erase it and do a clean install. I will try re-indexing it Mine is going since Tiger! 
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September 29th 2009, 01:03 AM
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 Official IMG Spambot Greeter Group: Members Posts: 2,525 Joined: June 3 '06 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 8,659 |
QUOTE(Eric5h5 @ September 29th 2009, 12:00 PM) Run an app that does defragging. --Eric Sounds fair enough. Makes sense. Thanks, Liberator. -------------------- |
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September 30th 2009, 07:53 AM
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of the Popeye Analogy Group: Members Posts: 8,812 Joined: May 31 '05 From: London, UK Member No.: 7,389 |
QUOTE(Janichsan @ September 28th 2009, 08:22 AM) Dictionaries Dictionaries Dictionaries... Terminal to the rescue! To restore the old behaviour of the Dictionary app re-using the same window over and over, get to the terminal and put in: defaults write com.apple.Dictionary ProhibitNewWindowForRequest -bool TRUE hit enter and you're done. -------------------- Polytetrafluoroethylene to my friends.
Macbook Pro - C2D 2.4Ghz / 4Gb RAM / WD Scorpio Black 320GB ( 255GB OSX v 42GB XP ) / Geforce 8600M GT 256Mb / 15.4" Cube - G4 1.7Ghz 7448 / 1.5Gb RAM / Samsung Spinpoint 250GB / Geforce 6200 256Mb We won! Apple offer the 17" with a matte screen! Well... at a price... |
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September 30th 2009, 08:42 AM
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 Verbal Windbag Group: Members Posts: 4,482 Joined: August 23 '05 From: over there Member No.: 7,719 |
QUOTE(teflon @ September 30th 2009, 03:53 PM) Terminal to the rescue! To restore the old behaviour of the Dictionary app re-using the same window over and over, get to the terminal and put in: defaults write com.apple.Dictionary ProhibitNewWindowForRequest -bool TRUE hit enter and you're done. Excellent. I was hoping for something like that. Now there only remains this pesky sorting issue... -------------------- "We do what we must, because we can."
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October 12th 2009, 09:04 AM
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Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: July 1 '07 From: Portland, Maine. US Member No.: 10,328 |
Here's one.
When you're installing Snow Leopard, you don't have an option to "Save User Settings". So if we need to install SL on a machine that has a more up-to-date version, we're screwed. |
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October 13th 2009, 06:55 AM
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Heroic Group: Members Posts: 450 Joined: October 21 '06 From: Hell's Ditch, The 51st State. Member No.: 9,324 |
Best watch out for this SL bug, guys. Though not a widespread problem, potentially a very serious one for those not backing up regularly. Apparently having the guest user account enabled results in loss of Home folder & all data. Frankly, glad I've waited before getting SL. More here:
Home folder lost - user account restored to default |
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November 5th 2009, 12:32 AM
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 Lead Farmer Group: Forum Moderators Posts: 2,966 Joined: July 17 '05 From: Republic of Texas Member No.: 7,581 |
My complaints: No Classic, and no PowerPC support.
 (Sorry) -------------------- The Big Endian
Cypher - 4 x G5 2.5 GHz / 6.5GB RAM / WDC 250GB, ST 1.5TB / 7800GTX 512MB / MacOS 10.4.11, 9.2.2, WinXP SP3 Spike - Cell 3.2 GHz / 256MB RAM / ST 320GB / RSX 256MB / GameOS 3.01, YDLinux 6.2 QUOTE(Eric5h5) When there's a multiplayer version, I'm going to be on Frost's team. Well, except he doesn't seem to actually need a team...I mean, what's the point? "Hey look, it's Frost and His Merry Gang of Useless Hangers-On!" Or something. |
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November 5th 2009, 10:44 AM
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 Master Blaster Group: Members Posts: 2,427 Joined: May 12 '02 From: The Republic of Soviet Canukistan Member No.: 2,071 |
I've got one!
File dialogues always seem to start three or so directories up from the last directory I actually interfaced with. So I'll, say, select a file at 'path/to/some/files/dir/file.ext', and then the next time the file dialogue comes up, it's at the 'some' directory. Boo! Also, I upgraded to Textwrangler 3 since it was listed as the SL compatible version, and they've gone and totally broken the FTP functionality. It somehow keeps maxing out the number of connections to the server, so I can't work on remote files! Boo! Also, they changed it so that when you're navigating the remote directories, hitting return while having a directory highlighted immediately saves your file to the current directory, rather than opening the highlighted one! Double boo! Sometimes the finder craps out if I cancel a network file transfer, and force-restarting it fails, requiring a restart. Boo again! There are probably more, but I forget what. It is mostly pretty solid though. -------------------- The dork formerly known as nobody
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