Melvyn & Edith Halbert wrote: > Bill Chapman <pagew...@interlog.com> Nov 28 11:29AM -0500 wrote: > >> I have no idea about your problem, but just out of curiosity, why >> are you running >(Tiger) 10.4.6 and not Tiger >10.4.11? Just >> wondering... > > Reply to Bill Chapman: > > I use several programs under Classic which have no equivalent under > OS X. Mac OS X 10.4.7 (and all later versions of Tiger) won't > automatically open files created under Classic in the application > that created them. Instead it opens them with some other > application, not of my choice. > > Worse yet, when OS X 10.4.7 (or later) is installed, without asking > the user's permission it changes the Creator of _all_ such files (of > which I have tens of thousands). The original Creator code can be > restored for one file at a time with the Finder's Get Info... > command, but the Change All... option is broken in 10.4.7 and later; > it isn't feasible to restore the Creator manually for tens of > thousands of files. > > I have found from experience that the latest version of Mac OS X that > does not behave this way is OS X 10.4.6, so this is the version I > continue to use. > > My Mac at work is required by our IT department to run the last > version of Tiger, so I know first hand how inconvenient it would be > for me to run 10.4.11 on my iMac G5 at home.
Me thinks you have a problem specific to your setup. I have Tiger 10.4.11 running on a G4 QuickSilver. It has Classic installed and I have a number of old programs on it and I have no problems with it opening with the correct application. In fact I have some real old apps that I haven't used in years, I hadn't used them since I was using a system running OS 9. For some of the documents I didn't realize I still had the app installed until I double clicked on the doc and it launched the app under Classic. And I have also used the "Change All" quite successfully. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
