File associations in Panther

[Mark Talluto]

On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:09 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Ian Wood wrote:
>
>> On 27 Feb 2004, at 01:01, Mark Talluto wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm using the same standalone building process I've used for the 
>>>> last year, only now on Panther my standalones won't recognize my 
>>>> custom document types.
>>>>
>>>> Also, when I modify the core engine name within the MacOS folder 
>>>> and then edit my plist to match, in earlier versions of OS X this 
>>>> was how I got the process name to match the bundle name, only in 
>>>> Jaguar the same steps I'd used successfully before no longer work 
>>>> -- now the app simply doesn't launch.
>>>>
>>>> Have any of you successfully assigned custom document types to a 
>>>> Rev standalone under Panther w/ Rev 2.1?  If so, what are you doing 
>>>> differently than you had done under Jaguar?
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>
>
I have been plagued by this by every version of OS X.

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Best regards,
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com