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Snow Leopard Snubs Document Creator Codes

Posted by timothy on from the mind-the-new-mantrap-in-the-living-room dept.

adamengst writes "In this TidBITS article, Matt Neuburg explores how Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard changes how the operating system handles preferred application bindings, dropping support for the creator codes that have been part of the Mac OS from the early days. He also explains how to work around the problem, if you want, for instance, text documents created with BBEdit to open in BBEdit even when TextEdit is the default handler for text files."

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  1. Re:We Know Best by Millennium · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple is off-base because they had a superior technology that was robust enough to at least be able to survive something as basic as a filename change. But it seems that, as has been typical for them over the last decade or so, they've gone with cheap-over-good yet again.

    This is why I got off the wagon. If I'm not going to get anything better from a Mac than anything else, then I'll at least get my money's worth out of another system.