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Due to recent security updates
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Aug 24, '04 04:21:00PM

The "Not Applicable" label is placed on files to applications you haven't opened yet. The recent security update to fix the unknown file opening an application and doing harmful things, lead Apple to implement the now familiar dialog "The document you are opening will open the application (fill in the blank) for the first time. Are you sure you want to open this application?"

If you haven't opened this application since the last login, you will get this dialog, and also files that belong to the application will be marked "Not Applicable" in the Get Info window's Open With pane.

To get around this, open the application you want first, and then you will find you are able to change the Get Info information.

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G4/466, 1 GB, Mac OS X 10.3.5



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Due to recent security updates
Authored by: xpander on Aug 24, '04 08:41:23PM

The equivalent to rebuilding the desktop is the flush or rebuild the launch services database.



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