On 6/3/2003 11:25 PM, Beth Rosengard deftly typed out: > Here's what John sent back and when you're done reading it, I'd still be > interested in an answer to my original question which remains unanswered: > "Why did Entourage not append a *Windows* extension to the PICT file" (or at > the very least a .pict extension which apparently is completely intelligible > to a Windows machine)?
I believe the process that Entourage uses to select a file extension (and my brief experimentation bears this out) is this... It scans the Internet Config file helpers by extension until it finds an entry with a matching file type. The entry for ".mac" comes before ".pct" and so the file ends up with ".mac". You should be able to fix this (I just tested it and it seemed to work), by going to the File Exchange control panel, sorting the list by file extension and deleting the entries for ".mac". This will cause Entourage to continue scanning until it reaches ".pct" and you'll get the desired extension (and MIME type). In OS X the only way to edit the file helpers is to use Internet Explorer (since it writes its file helpers data to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconfig.plist). This will, of course, have the side effect that when you receive an untyped file with a ".mac" extension, that a file type won't be assigned to it. But when's the last time *that* happened? -Remo Del Bello -- "I recommend a slow, steady gorging process, combined with assal horizontology." - Dr. Nick Riviera on The Simpsons -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
