Never really resolved this issue properly.
Booted in Tiger, without using third party
software, I want
A. My jpgs from my camera (or any collection of
pic files of my choosing) to open in my OS 9
Photoshop app.
B. The icons to have the PS look
They get by default the preview icon.
I can get A by Get Info panel, open with, other
(photoshop never appears in the list, I have to
file sys hunt it down, easy enough every time
but surely this is unsatisfactory?) and choose
PS. Fine, but no B. And aesthetically worse:
plain - white doc - icon. I can open the file
and save as and I get B. Without going crazy,
how to get this result auto for a number of
files?
Let us now try something else: after Open with
in the Get Info, immediately press the Change
All... button. Now things get truly crazy. A
dialog box comes up to ask you if you really
want to open all files of this type, and it is
explicit about it being a PS file, in PS! OK.
sloppy coding and wording by the programmers
maybe, lets us press on and say yes, and hit the
Continue button. Now, in the Get Info panel, the
Preview returns magically as the Open with! Of
course all PS files will open with PS! The
problem is how to get files en mass to open with
PS when they are by default set to Preview.
I think there is a bug in Tiger or something deeply wrong.
This problem still shows up after a reinstall of
Tiger, after all updates (at least up to a month
or two ago?)
David Elmo
Here is an applescript that will work.
-- paste the following in Script Editor.
-- save as application
-- drag-and-drop files and/or folders onto the icon to set them
-- to open with photoshop
on open (thelist)
set thelist to thelist as list
repeat with x in thelist
dostuff(x)
end repeat
end open
on dostuff(theThing)
tell application "Finder"
if (character -1 of (theThing as text)) ":" then
if file type of theThing = "JPEG" then
set creator type of theThing to "8BIM"
end if
else
repeat with x in every item of theThing
dostuff(x)
end repeat
end if
end tell
end dostuff
--end of script
--
Jason Davies
Master Gizmologist
Cream City Traction Club
http://www.geocities.com/jason_e_davies/cct.html
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