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Authored by: DanFrakes on Apr 22, '03 11:38:09PM

The problem with many of the suggestions here (deleting the
resource fork) is that this only removes file associations for those
files that adhere to all of the following criteria: (1) have resource
forks; (2) have a creator type set (or sometimes a file type); and
(3) haven't been specifically bound to any other application.

Mac OS X actually has several levels of file association: first the
OS checks to see if a file has been specifically associated with/
bound to a certain application; then it checks the creator code if
the file has a resource fork; then it checks the file extension (dot-
3); then it checks the file type (again, assuming the file has a
resource fork).

So changing the creator or file type may or may not change the
application a file is opened with. Likewise, deleting the resource
fork may or may not affect which application opens the file.

Using a utility like XRay, you can take one of two approaches in
this situation:

1) Bind a file (and, if desired, all similar files) to a specific
application.

or

2) Clear the application binding, creator code, and file type of a
file or a group of files. In the example here -- Adobe HTML help
files -- this means that the files will open using the browser
specified in Internet preferences.



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