File associations in Panther

[Robert Brenstein]

>>>
>>>I sometimes have to stuff the standalone.  Then delete the 
>>>original.  Then unstuff to get it all to work again.  On really 
>>>bad cases, I file transfer the standalone to another mac and then 
>>>bring it back.  This always does the trick.
>>
>>As I mentioned recently on the list, deleting the standalone and 
>>then dragging it back out of the Trash does the same.
>
>Curious.  Is this a Finder bug?  Is it a known issue?
>
>--
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation

It is a long-standing (as long as OS7 at least) issue, although I 
would not call it a bug as such. The problem is to trigger Finder 
into updating its desktop database for a program that is already 
cataloged.

Robert Brenstein