At 11:27 a -0500 02/06/2008, Mark Smith didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On 05.02.2008, at 16:24, Greg V. Raven wrote:
My sense is that, as the Mac OS evolves, it will eventually dump
file type and creator entirely
I doubt that - as long as an HFS derivative is the default OS.
Plus I would dump the Mac if that day ever arrived. Filename
extensions are a convenience, not a technology. Type/creator is
vastly superior for UI purposes.
In any case, the current "OS hierarchy" is:
custom per file setting > creator > extension > type
so a solution based on extensions is going to be brittle.
I need a mnemonic for that. Hmm... Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
For the OP: how about using automator to make a droplet ?
<http://www.google.com/search?q=automator%20creator%20type%20action>
My personal preference is to operate on a selection and run a script
from the Script menu (I use FastScripts from red-sweater.com).
BTW, you don't need the SetFile developer tool -- you can just tell
the Finder to set the creator type... although sometimes Finder gets
lazy and requires a loop to kick it into responding. Ah, defensive
coding.
-boo
imagining a mountain of mashed potatoes for mr. neary
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