On Feb 7, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Airey, David C wrote:
Dear list,
I have a bit more RAM now and want to make R64 the default GUI.
What is the best way to do this?
I usually dragged my files to the Dock icon.
The simplest way outside the terminal is to get info on a file and
make an application the default for a particular extension, like .r
or .rdata, etc. But for some reason this doesn't work with the R.app
and R64.app distributed. R64 doesn't stick, and reverts to R in the
Get Info window.
Can someone (1) explain this behavior, and (2) provide alternative
instructions?
I can reproduce the problem in the sense that I changed the file
association for .r files to R64.app and it keeps going back to R.app.
I think it will require editing the file associations database. I
wasn't sure how to do that but here's a link to some ideas about using
lsregister. It may be a bit out of date since it appears to have been
applied to OSX 10.3.
I got what appear to be favorable results by:
a) moving all the old and undesired R_x.app GUI's out of the
Applications folder and ...
b) running this script from the Apple Script editor:
(*
rebuildLaunchServicesDB.scpt
Locates the lsregister command regardless of OS version, then tells it
to rebuild the Launch Services Database for all applications in the
canonical Applications folder
Paul Henegan
bleul...@mac.com
20.Aug.2008
*)
set theCommand to (do shell script "locate lsregister")
set theArguments to " -kill -r -f -domain local -domain system -domain
user"
set thePath to " /Applications"--edit this as needed
set theScript to theCommand & theArguments & thePath
do shell script theScript
-------end script-----------
The R64 assignment seems to be "sticking."
Thank you.
-Dave
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