[Ham-Mac] How to Change file extension Associatation in OS X

Kristen A. McIntyre kristen at alum.mit.edu
Fri Nov 5 19:37:05 EDT 2010


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On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Kristen A. McIntyre wrote:

> Use cmd-i from Finder.  Look where it says "Open with:" as in:
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> Choose "other ..." if Text Edit is not in the list when you click on the control.  This will cause the "Change All..." button to light up, as in:
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> Click on "Change All..." and that will make the change system-wide.
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> On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:
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>> Jim Reisert AD1C does a great service to the amateur community with his
>> distribution
>> of the cty.dat file.
>> 
>> <http://www.country-files.com/cty/index.htm#Fldigi>
>> 
>> My OS X has a file association issue with the .dat extension. OS X 10.6
>> wants 
>> to open the downloaded cty.dat file with the Graphic Converter and I have
>> to
>> manually Get Info and change it to Open with a text editor.
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>> This is an issue in my setup and there is nothing wrong with the format of
>> AD1C's cty.dat file.
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>> Where in OS X can I modify my OS X setup to open a .dat file?
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>> 73 de Dick AA5VU
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