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A fix for an 'Open With: Not Applicable' errors
Authored by: hal_eckhart on Jan 22, '05 10:00:47AM

I just ran into this problem on a new install of Panther on a G4 Dual 450. Quark would repeatedly get the "the document you are opening will open the application for the first time" BS when double-clicking a Quark file no matter how many times I opened it or rebooted. And of course, there were 2 separate and identical copies of Quark showing up below the inevitable "not applicable" box. No amount of tweaking the get info box or even the otherwise trustworthy RCDefaultApp.prefPane would make the stupid thing go away.

It turns out that this tip:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486
did the trick. The tip by IslandDan about rebuilding Launch Services seems to be bogus, however. At least it makes no sense to me, because there aren't any files that would be removed by that command. But the same note is still on the Apple Developer site, so perhaps I'm wrong. Or it may refer to an OS prior to Panther, despite the copyright of 2005.



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