Associating Application Icons with Files

I just moved about a Gigs worth of files over from my G4 to my Wallstreet. The .pdf files do not obtain the Adobe Acrobat Reader icon until I actually open the file. Is there a way to change all the files icons at once without opening them all?

Hi, Kirk -
OS 9 uses embedded File Type and Creator codes in order for Finder to know how to handle a file when it is double-clicked, and to know what icon to use for it. OSX does not use those codes; it may be that they are not being added to the file until the file has been opened by the program.
There are some utilities available which can be used to change those codes, and may be able to fix those files. The one I'd recommend is FileBuddy.
With FileBuddy you can create a droplet, a small mini-app designed to change file characteristics in a specified way - you can then drop a folder full of files onto the droplet, and all files in the folder will be changed to match the settings in the droplet.
To use FileBuddy for that, you will first need to acquire the correct File Type and Creator codes. Drop a 'good' file, one with the correct icon, onto FileBuddy's icon. FB's Get Info window will open. At the bottom center of that window will be a couple of data blocks containing the File Type and Creator codes for that file. Write those codes down - note that all File Type and Creator codes are exactly four characters in length, and may contain numbers and special characters (such as a space) in addition to letters; and that the characters are case sensitive (upper and lower case are important). Close that window.
Now drop one of the generic files of the same kind onto FileBuddy. In FB's Get Info window, change the File Type and Creator codes to match the ones you copied previously. Once you have done so, the droplet button should become active - it's the leftmost of the row of samll icons near the top of the Get Info window. Click it, name the droplet something appropriate, and complete the creation of the droplet.
Then test it with a copy of one of the generic files. If it works okay, you can then drop an entire folder of such files onto the droplet for mass fixing.
Be sure you do not have a stray other-kind of file in that folder, because all files in the folder will be changed to match the settings in the droplet.
For future importation of files, try adjusting the file/program linkages in the File Exchange control panel, particularly those in the PC Exchange section; and the similar settings in the Internet control panel (Advanced tab > File Mappings). I'm not sure which of those settings will be used by the OS when files are brought in by TCP/IP.

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I'm trying to do a Desktop Application Distribution with a simple NAL and
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John

Graham,
Thanks for the suggestions. I thought this type of distribution still
worked in Zen 6.5. It used to work great for us under Zen 6 and I hadn't
seen anything that said it didn't work with Zen 6.5. We'll probably use a
second distribution for the short term and then try one of your other
suggestions or see if we can find another way that works better.
John
"Graham Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Depends on the kind of app you're trying to distribute... If it's a simple
> one ie you run something like setup.exe in a directory of files, then the
> files will NOT replicate out. If it's an MSI you're trying to distribute,
> even one with a file of support files (like say office), these WILL
> replicate out. Unfortunately, this is working as designed. You'll also
> find
> that file rights are NOT copied out yet either...
>
> There are a couple of ways round it... One is to do a seperate file
> distribution object to copy out the needed files/directories - I think
> this
> is messy, as you need to have 2 distributions for each application.
>
> You can use the repackager that comes with Zen to repackage the files into
> an MSI and use that to install the application on the workstations. This
> will replicate out fine.
>
> Another way, and they way we're starting to look at doing it, since it
> resolves some issues with workstation associated installs, is to have the
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> workstation and run the install from there. To do that, you need a
> SOURCE_PATH pointing to the server distribution point, and another
> variable
> (we call it INSTALL_PATH) pointing to somewhere on the local workstation
> (C:\Install\MS\Office2k3). We then run the install from this location.
> Since
> all the files are mentioned in the distribution portion of the application
> object, when we distribute the application out to the remote servers, all
> the required files are copied out too.
>
> To do this manually for more than a couple of files is a royal pain in the
> ass... however, there's a makeaxt.pl PERL script available on
> coolsolutions
> that does most of the donkey work for you - give it the source and
> destination directories, and it will make an AXT file you can import. The
> only thing we have to do is to hit it with an editor, and replace the
> absolute paths (C:\Install\MS\Office2k3) with the variable we want to use
> (INSTALL_PATH).
>
> We're actually doing this, combined with the MSIs at the moment, since
> we're
> doing an image/application refresh for WinXPSP2, so we're rebuilding all
> the
> apps this way.
>
> If anyone is doing it differently, or has other suggestions, I'd love to
> hear...
>
>
>
> Graham
>
>
>
> "John Malinowski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> I'm trying to do a Desktop Application Distribution with a simple NAL and
>> can not get the files associated with the NAL to copy to the subscriber
>> server. I am using ZFS 6.5 SP1. I am using a mapped drive letter in the
> NAL
>> and have chosen "Keep the same source paths for the replicated objects"
>> in
>> the distribution. I also have defined a variable in the service
>> location
>> package as 'drive letter'='volume name' and associated this policy with
> the
>> container that the distributor and subscriber are in. I checked the box
> in
>> the subscriber's variable property to use this policy. The documentation
>> also says to use a SOURCE_PATH macro and 'Package Source List' to define
> the
>> mapped drive but I am unsure how those should be defined. Should they be
>> just a drive letter or the entire path to the applications files? Also,
> I'm
>> not sure if anything else is need to make this work.
>>
>> Any Ideas of what I might need to do to get this to work?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
>

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Associate Icon with file

Hello Every one, I need some help here. I have just developed an Editor, and I want to know how to associate the files created with the editor with my icon. And secondly, when the file is double click on the desktop or anywhere in the computer, the file should open up with my editor.
I really need your help.
Thanks
Phife

normally you can say in windows if you right click
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regards
tbd

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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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SuperPop
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