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10.6: Use Automator to ease document-app assignments
There is nothing for Apple to "fix" The problem is due to BBEdit's failure to use the new and improved file identification system. They have had years to stop using the old deprecated system.
10.6: Use Automator to ease document-app assignments
The problem isn't just BBEdit. The problem is, at least in my testing, that a majority of the apps aren't using UTIs, so nearly every app will exhibit this problem.
Are UTIs read-only?
And thus not useable for the purpose suggested here. From a post at Appleinsider:
Re: 10.6: Use Automator to ease document-app assignments
The AppleInsider article is just plain wrong when it comes to this specific part.
Re: 10.6: Use Automator to ease document-app assignments
"you're adding separate filesystem metadata stored in com.apple.ResourceFork"
Re: 10.6: Use Automator to ease document-app assignments
According to Peter Hosey (on the development teams of Adium and Growl), there's no public API for writing the override resource. In theory an app could reverse-engineer the function and use it to write the resource, but that could stop working (and maybe even break the app) at any time.
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