Filetype Associations

After years of listening to my wife curse her Mac and not finding the
answer myself, I thought I'd ask here. Every time she gets an email
containing an MS Word document written on Windows, if she doesn't
carefully right click on it and choose "Open With..." (or whatever it
is on MacOS) it opens in AppleWorks, even though she has MS Word
installed on her Mac. I understand that Macs have their own way of
keeping track of file types, but how do we control the way
otherwise-untyped files are interpreted?

Thanks in Advance,
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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com

In article <1122056828.652659.50500@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.c om>, dave
<dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> After years of listening to my wife curse her Mac and not finding the
> answer myself, I thought I'd ask here. Every time she gets an email
> containing an MS Word document written on Windows, if she doesn't
> carefully right click on it and choose "Open With..." (or whatever it
> is on MacOS) it opens in AppleWorks, even though she has MS Word
> installed on her Mac. I understand that Macs have their own way of
> keeping track of file types, but how do we control the way
> otherwise-untyped files are interpreted?

In OS X, get info on the file, select the "open with" application, and
click the "Change All" button.

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In article <1122056828.652659.50500@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.c om>, "dave"
<dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/I understand that Macs
have their own way of
> keeping track of file types, but how do we control the way
> otherwise-untyped files are interpreted?

Apart from the Finder/Info method, there is System Preferences panal program:
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/

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Hans Aberg

Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <1122056828.652659.50500@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.c om>, dave
> <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> > After years of listening to my wife curse her Mac and not finding the
> > answer myself, I thought I'd ask here. Every time she gets an email
> > containing an MS Word document written on Windows, if she doesn't
> > carefully right click on it and choose "Open With..." (or whatever it
> > is on MacOS) it opens in AppleWorks, even though she has MS Word
> > installed on her Mac. I understand that Macs have their own way of
> > keeping track of file types, but how do we control the way
> > otherwise-untyped files are interpreted?
>
> In OS X, get info on the file, select the "open with" application, and
> click the "Change All" button.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work. I'm trying to have all .avi and .mpg
opened with vlc by default. I picked a .avi file and selected File->Get
Info. So far so good. I hit the drop-down menu for Open With and
select VLC. When I let go, it goes right back to QuickTime Player.

What's wrong?

David

Hans Aberg wrote:
> In article <1122056828.652659.50500@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.c om>, "dave"
> <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/I understand that Macs
> have their own way of
> > keeping track of file types, but how do we control the way
> > otherwise-untyped files are interpreted?
>
> Apart from the Finder/Info method, there is System Preferences panal program:
> http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/
>

Thanks - that works great!!! Another step in helping me dump Windows
and move totally to Mac.

David