On Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at 05:03 PM, Tom W. wrote:
People at work, including our production department, and our IT department,
are telling me it's bad to launch an application via clicking on an
associated document, unless the application is already open.
Wow, the leg they're pulling on any longer yet?
No. There's no difference, and no way it could be 'bad'.
That advice coming from an IT department is scary, unless they're all windows weenies worried about the damned viruses called things like important.txt.exe (Windows gleefully hides the .exe part for you, leading many to believe it is text file.) in which case they're sort of right, but if you've got the virus there in clickable form, you've already lost...
On a Mac it makes zero difference, and has nothing to do with your Mac crashing.
One thing to do is rebuild your desktop, (hold command-option down while rebooting until the dialog appears) which could be causing crashes when doing this.
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