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A better solution?
Authored by: Greedo on Jan 19, '04 12:46:47PM

Instead of step 4 in the original hint (trash the alias icon), do a "Get Info" on it. You will see that it is an alias to BBEdit.app:Contents:MacOSClassic:BBEdit.

I would guess that if you could change this to point to the OS X executable instead, that would be better than trashing everything. However, the "Select New Original..." button in the info window doesn't allow you to go "into" .app directories to select new originals. And, looking at the alias through Terminal.app shows that it's not a symlink, so I don't know if using

ln -s ...
would do it.

(FWIW, this kind of alias exists in most Adobe apps as well.)



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A better solution?
Authored by: HJFriedrich on May 20, '04 05:40:14AM

You are right, you cannot change inside a .app directory using the finder view. But the "go to directory"-command works here as usual (command-shift-g). Then you can type in the path (don't forget the .app)



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