[X Newbies] Linking Files to Applications [Was: Disk Utility/RESOLVED [TID]]

[J]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 12:51  PM, Alex wrote:

> There's some misunderstanding here. You're talking opening files. I'm 
> talking _linking_ files to applications.

I'm talking both, since the auto opening in the right app won't work if 
they aren't linked...........
>
> Here's how it works under OS X.
<snip>

I know exactly how it works.

> Now you see what I meant. When you double-clicked
>
> "something.cwk"
>
> Finder should have told you it had no app registered to handle this 
> kind of file, and offered you a dialogue to choose an application to 
> open it (and, by default, go straight to the Applications folder). If 
> AppleWorks was greyed out, you should have chosen Show All 
> Applications, then it should have become available. If it didn't, 
> there was a problem with the system.

IT DIDN'T BUT THERE WASN'T since there were 500 other .cwk files that 
were associated properly. Taking away the "" fixed it immediately. But 
you seem to continue to ignore this fact. Somehow, the "" caused AW to 
NOT be available no matter what was done. I have done this HUNDREDS of 
times over the phone with MANY people...so I know how to do it.


>  Alternatively, if you did a Get Info > Open With > etc., and again, 
> AppleWorks was still greyed out even with the Show All Apps option, 
> then there was a problem.

Yes, and the problem was the "" which I removed from the filename and 
all was fixed.

<sigh>
Can we close this thread now?