[X Newbies] Disk Utility/RESOLVED

Alex alist at sprint.ca
Tue Jan 20 20:12:49 PST 2004


On Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004, at 20:44 Canada/Eastern, J wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 12:58  PM, Alex wrote:
>
>> Describe what you "saw". You were in 10.2.8, you selected the file, 
>> chose Get Info, clicked on Open with:, and then what? You couldn't 
>> choose the Other... menu item? You couldn't choose the application 
>> you wanted in the Choose Other Application dialogue -- even with the 
>> Show All Applications option? The Add button was greyed out? I could 
>> assign any document to open with any application in Jaguar. (Whether 
>> the application could open the document is something else.)
>>
>> Try it on your own Mac and see what happens.
>
> I just told you, the file name had quotes around it put there by the 
> Juno webmail and so it was not recognized when the dialog offered you 
> the apps to open with....AW was greyed out.

Read again what I wrote. Was AppleWorks greyed out _even_ with the Show 
All Applications option? If yes, then there was a problem (quotes or 
not). Again, test it on your own -- it's not exactly difficult.

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