You should be able to select one of the .spin files and do a Get Info. About 2/3 of the way down the Info window you should see "Open with:" There you should be able to select what application you want to have open the file. Below that drop down menu is a "Change All…" button. Click that and you should be able to return to your old habits.
Lynn See the InfoManager blog at http://www.ugnn.com/ On Feb 1, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Amanda Ward wrote: > 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 -- 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
