On 6/4/03 6:11 AM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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). Brilliant! There was a .mac extension that pointed to file type PICT. I deleted that, opened a new message, attached a PICT file and the extension became a .pct. > 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? Before my time, that's for sure :-). Thanks much � for the explanation and the solution! Beth -- 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/>
