I want to change the Creator type of some files that open with MSIE, so 
that they open with Safari instead. I cannot find the Creator type of 
Safari. When I drag the application to "FileType", I get a number of 
files instead of one single Safari Application file (as if the app were 
some kind of a folder), and none of them has a legible Creator or Type 
4-character code.

Thanks in advance for any help or explanation.

P.S. Is the concept of filetype and creator "deprecated" in OS X ?

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In article <3f51e696$0$26817$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-01.noos.net>,
Fran�ois de Dardel <fdedardel@netscape.net> wrote:

> I want to change the Creator type of some files that open with MSIE, so 
> that they open with Safari instead. I cannot find the Creator type of 
> Safari. When I drag the application to "FileType", I get a number of 
> files instead of one single Safari Application file (as if the app were 
> some kind of a folder), and none of them has a legible Creator or Type 
> 4-character code.

Safari's creator code is "sfri".

> P.S. Is the concept of filetype and creator "deprecated" in OS X ?

It's still used, but so are file extensions (.txt, .html, etc.) and
Launch Services (setting, for example, Mozilla as the default
application for all documents with a Netscape creator code). At least
in the classic OS, you knew what was going to happen when you
double-clicked a file--if it had a PictureViewer icon, PictureViewer
would start up, etc. OTOH, sometimes the results can be quite
surprising when you double-click a file in OS X (I've had MacLink Plus
start up when I double-click a .hqx file instead of StuffIt Expander).
The reliance on extensions can backfire, also--I had an old HyperCard
stack whose name ended in "4.0", and OS X thought the ".0" part was an
extension it was unaware of. :-\

Emily

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In article <3f51e696$0$26817$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-01.noos.net>,
 Fran�ois de Dardel <fdedardel@netscape.net> wrote:

> I want to change the Creator type of some files that open with MSIE, so 
> that they open with Safari instead. I cannot find the Creator type of 
> Safari. When I drag the application to "FileType", I get a number of 
> files instead of one single Safari Application file (as if the app were 
> some kind of a folder), and none of them has a legible Creator or Type 
> 4-character code.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help or explanation.
> 
> P.S. Is the concept of filetype and creator "deprecated" in OS X ?

Depends who you ask, and last I checked it was still the first method of 
determining what happened when a file was double-clicked. If you've only 
got a couple of files to touch, open Get-Info windows on them and one of 
the (probably collapsed) sections of the window will let you specify the 
app used to open that file.

Oh, and the app _is_ some kind of folder. While the OSType metadata may 
or may not be deprecated, resource forks are now passe. The new 
technique is a folder containing as complex a hierarchy as you like as 
long as a couple of specific things are in a couple of specific places 
masquerading as a single file (application or document). This was 
introduced to the Mac world with, IIRC, 9.0 and inherited from NeXT. It 
has several relative benefits, not the least of which is that the 
resource fork was hampered by its early-80s design decisions.

G