Of course it is weird. In all my Safari plists except one , when I click , it shows me that they are iTunes documents, and double clicking opens iTunes. The exempted one is the Form Value. This one shows me it is a document file, I can open it with text edit, but it shows a wild palette of characters which I can make no sense of. This had me baffled before and as I recall,i had sent a copy made in "Grab" to Jerry to look at this strange behavior, but until I have somebody really look into this for repair , I have no idea, what I could do about it. -- In fact, even the plists that are documents, in other applications don't show anything decipherable when I use textedit. So maybe I should get this program you mentioned and run all my plists through it . There are several other plists with the strange behavior of opening in iTunes, but at the m oment cannot remember to which applications they belong. I do what Jerry asks ; open home/ user ( I am the only one)/ Safari/--there are Bookmarks plist, downloads plist, Form Values without the plist added, history plist and and icon folder. All the mentioned plists open iTunes when double clicked, on ly Form Values ( no plist ending) opens in text edit with garbled characters. Marta
On Sep 27, 2005, at 0:51, Jerry Freeman wrote: > Something weird here. Safari bookmarks plist should not open in > iTunes, nor should even an iTunes plist open in iTunes. To expand on > Jerry Y's statement, plist files open in TextEdit by default unless > PLE is installed, or another Applications have been erroneously > assigned to them in Get Info. Is this "it says" you refer to, Get > Info? What is the full name of the file you refer to as Safari > bookmarks plist...jf > >>> then it says it is an iTunes document > > > On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> Files that end in .plist are called (p)roperty list files and tend to >> usually be files of preference settings, hence the alias preference >> list files You can read them with a text editor or it you want to >> install the developer tools, it has a program on it called Property >> List Editor that has the correct file type icons and definitions that >> your finder will then use to correctly identify any plist file. >> >> >> Jerry >> >> On Sep 26, 2005, at 11:45 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >> >> >>> This brings me to this question, not that I could open the plists >>> anyway, but I have a number of plists that are iTunes documents. My >>> Safari bookmarks plist is one of them- created sometime last year , >>> it says, then it says it is an iTunes document and iTunes opens when >>> I double click on it. And I have no idea how to put this list into >>> the category it belongs. I think I asked Jerry about that strange >>> quirk once before. Maybe somebody can tell me what I should do . | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
