I do a lot of microprocessor programming with a program called BST that saves files with the extension of .spin.
When I upgraded to Lion, the OS decided that all my source files (600+) were "Spin Reports" and the new default program to open them is Console. This is a real pain since I normally open a project folder, double click on a file and BST opens it. Now Console opens several windows with tons of information I have no need for. I can go to each file, open Get Info and change the file association individually. No… "Change All" doesn't work and it even changes the file I just changed to open with BST back to opening with Console. I tried selecting multiple files and I either get a "Get Info" window for each file or a "Multiple Item Info" . The multiple windows will let me change the file associations individually, but with over 500 of them left it's a lot of work. The "Multiple" window is strange… I can select BST as the default program and click "Change All" and it works… for a second. The icons for the spin files change to BST and the "Kind" changes from "Spin Report" to "Spin Document". Great! Except something in the bowels of the OS decides "Wait! You can't do that!" and changes everything back to Console again. Last neat thing before I beg for help… I can change the spin files to open with anything, anything at all… except BST. I changed them all to Word documents and then tried to change to BST. Nope! Back to Console files. Tried Textedit, Xcode, Photoshop… nada. Sorry this is long and complicated, but I'm hoping someone has a suggestion. I'm not looking forward to spending hours and hours dealing with this. :-| Thanks for any guidance! Amanda Ward -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
