At 9:00 PM -0500 11/29/2009, Melvyn & Edith Halbert wrote:
>I use several programs under Classic which have no equivalent under
>OS X.  Mac OS X 10.4.7 (and all later versions of Tiger) won't
>automatically open files created under Classic in the application
>that created them.  Instead it opens them with some other
>application, not of my choice.

Rebuild your classic desktop in OS 9.
Then rebuild your launch services database in OS X.

>Worse yet, when OS X 10.4.7 (or later) is installed, without asking
>the user's permission it changes the Creator of _all_ such files (of
>which I have tens of thousands).  The original Creator code can be
>restored for one file at a time with the Finder's Get Info...
>command, but the Change All... option is broken in 10.4.7 and later;
>it isn't feasible to restore the Creator manually for tens of
>thousands of files.

It's not broken.  Works fine for me.

- Dan.
-- 
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.

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