on 28/09/04 20:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my old PB, under OS 9, double-clicking an older tax data file > automagically opened the older/matching tax app. But now under > Panther, they all launch the newest app only. I have to manually > launch the older app then open the file from within. How do I fix > this in OS X?
Select on of your older data file, do "Info" in the Finder. In the window that appears, open the "Open with" section tab. There will be a popup menu there. Click on it, then select the item "Other...". Navigate to find the application that should open that document. If you want all other documents of this type to be opened by the selected application, click the "Change All" button. Know that there is a little gotcha to this. After some people theorically demonstrated that unknown document could trigger the launch of unknown application and thus, presenting a threat, Apple in one of their latest system update did change how the application document setting works. You won't be able to set all documents of a certain type to default to a specific application of your choosing until you launch the application at least once. Odd, but I spent about an hour the other day trying to set the default app for a document type before finding, after trials, errors and experimentations, that I had never launched this application on my new PowerBook. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cargo cult programming n.: A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose. A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo programming). -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
