Creator Codes and File Types

Question

I'm on my first day with Snow Leopard and a brand new iMac. So far, so good. But I had this great little AppleScript droplet that I used all throughout Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.5 which allowed you to drop a jpeg file on it which was created in PhotoShop and it would change the Creator Code and File Type so that it would default to opening in Preview. But it doesn't work under SL now. Has something changed with Creator Codes and File Types under SL? Maybe there's another way to do this? I sure miss it - these little things that you use every day and then all of a sudden, you can't use them anymore. Any suggestions or workarounds?

Answer 1

Creator codes are totally deprecated in snow leopard. as for a workaround you can use something like this.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on open these_items
repeat with this_item in these_items
tell application "Finder"
set the_file to POSIX path of (this_item as alias)
tell application "System Events"
set default application of file (the_file) to ("Main HD:Applications:Preview.app" as alias)
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end open</pre>
save it as an application and drop files onto it to set them to open with Preview.