Re: Missing "TYPE" code...

2019-05-09 Thread Scott in Pollock
On Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 2:58:03 PM UTC-7, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > Because the OS hasn't supported them for many years. > > Not to be argumentative, but to be clear… the OS still supports it (always has). This includes the Finder and Nav Services. Just because a file extension takes

Re: Missing "TYPE" code...

2019-05-09 Thread Rich Siegel
On 5/9/19 at 4:36 AM, scottinpoll...@gmail.com (Scott in Pollock) wrote: Not to be argumentative, but to be clear… the OS still supports it (always has). No, you're obviously being argumentative. :-) There are various places in which the OS *allows* the specification and description of

Re: Missing "TYPE" code...

2019-05-09 Thread Scott in Pollock
On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 11:12:51 AM UTC-7, @lbutlr wrote: > > This will change the modification date for every clipping file in the > folder, pretty sure. > Nope... it will only run on files that are *added* to the folder, when they are added. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public

Re: Missing "TYPE" code...

2019-05-09 Thread Scott in Pollock
On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 6:16:52 AM UTC-7, Rich Siegel wrote: > > The legacy file system APIs which explicitly supported HFS file > type and creator still work for the moment, but are deprecated. LOL... Ok, maybe "supported" was the wrong word. "Still works" was probably more appropriate.

Re: Missing "TYPE" code...

2019-05-09 Thread Sam Hathaway
On 9 May 2019, at 9:16, Rich Siegel wrote: To solve your problem: if you want to make new clippings that will open in BBEdit when you double-click them in the Finder, give them a ".txt" extension. Another possible solution: BBEdit ships with a Service called “Open File in BBEdit”. You can

Re: Missing "TYPE" code...

2019-05-09 Thread @lbutlr
On 9 May 2019, at 10:11, @lbutlr wrote: > I suppose I can just make a service in automator? This is what I ended up with as an Automator Action:

Re: Missing "TYPE" code...

2019-05-09 Thread @lbutlr
On 9 May 2019, at 10:58, Scott in Pollock wrote: > I just created this folder action and assign it to my clippings folders. > Issued solved (and "Automated" thanks to Sal... too bad Apple let him go). > > This will change the modification date for every clipping file in the folder, pretty

Re: Missing "TYPE" code...

2019-05-09 Thread @lbutlr
On 9 May 2019, at 09:12, Sam Hathaway wrote: > Another possible solution: BBEdit ships with a Service called “Open File in > BBEdit”. You can set a keybinding for it in the Keyboard prefpane (I use ⌘⌥B) > and use that to open any file in BBEdit, regardless of file extension or > other