you can get what you need." I'll give it a try and report back. So though "you can't always get what you want, if you try sometimes. No creator change, or whatever, but I get it open without having to scroll down through 30 or so available apps when I hold the control key. However, since I need to do surgery on each, then Resave As (and in a Classic Ap at that!) I may modify it so that I can drop each file on it as needed.
Your droplet would be great as is, IF I needed to open them all at once. But I had hoped to have a little more surgical control over which files have their preferences changed. My next fall-back is probably to change default for the whole system, then drop back, either when this project is done or when a different project requires Photoshop or Preview or whatever. no info on this situation on the web, so far as I have found. Don't think I'm doing anything different each time, and I have tried different key combinations, different ways of selection, etc. (200+ folders, up to 35 files per folder, not a fun route). I used to be able to shift-select a folder's worth of files in the Finder, "Get Info" and change the default for those files as a group now it seems that at least half the time I get a Get Info window for each file. Every year I seem to do a little updating and re-tweaking.)
the default application doesn't change to match (though it did when the project came through last year.) It's not that I can't do it some other way, but I only make money with an optimized workflow, which AppleScript definitely offers (at least when I get it up and running. In the case of the scripts I tried, AppleScript does report a change of creator, but. I straighten and crop them one at a time, then resave as compressed tiffs for Quark chapters, where I import them ( and size and scale and position them) folder by folder via AppleScript. In this case, files come in from my scanner to a folder, neatly numbered, and I want to convert them all to open with PPPV on a double-click. Preview is default OSX app of choice, I guess, but as a designer, I open files with GraphicConverter, Photoshop, PaperPort Page Viewer (the "MAXm" of the sample script) depending on need holding the control key offers me probably 30 apps that read tiffs. Under 'Open With', select the program you want to change the default to, make sure to click on 'Change All.' button, confirm, and it is done.Thanks for your response.
Step 3: Select all dummy files in Finder at once, then press option+ command+ I. Open Terminal.app, and using your txt file above do the following command: while read -r line do mkfile 1b file$ done < types.txt
Step 2: Create temporary dummy files of every extension in an above category in your user folder. Some extensions may not open in the universal media player / image viewer you want to switch to, but you can fix it on a doesn't-work basis after the switch.
SET DEFAULT APP FOR FILE TYPES ON MAC ARCHIVE
From such sources, I removed a few that I deemed unsuitable as they are commonly used in non-media file contexts and may conflict, e.g.xz was in a media list, but it's usually an archive format.) (The above lists were collated from sources including as at 2020.09.30 ( audio, video, image), VLC's formats wiki, foobar2000 documentation, my own knowledge, and various programs' save / export file dialogues. 3g2, I've put such an extension into the video list). (For the few file extensions that I'm aware can apply to either video or audio, e.g.ram. Step 1: Put the list of file types (from one of the categories below) into a text file at ~/types.txt, with one per line as shown.īelow are very exhaustive lists for three common media file categories.
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