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

[Alex]

On Thursday, Jan 22, 2004, at 23:13 Canada/Eastern, Vincent Cayenne 
wrote:

> At 12:51 PM -0500 1/21/04, Alex wrote:
>> There's some misunderstanding here.
>
> Alex, you're wrong. She does not misunderstand you but you do her the 
> disservice of doubting her without trying the exercise.

Leaving J alone, I believe you (too) misread my message.

> A document which has not yet been assigned (such as one coming in as 
> an attachment), and whose extension is suffixed by the quote mark, 
> will not be assigned to an application.

Indeed. However, the point I'm trying to make (I suggest reading my 
post again) is that this is not relevant to _assigning a document to an 
application using the Get Info dialogue_! J says this (using the Get 
Info dialogue) didn't work for her. It should work, whether the file 
name extension ends with a quote mark or not. If it doesn't, then 
there's a problem.

> Now change the extension to .doc".

And may I suggest something for you to try. At this point, follow the 
procedure detailed repeatedly in my posts (Get Info, etc.), and see 
whether or not you can assign this document to whatever application you 
wish.

f