[OS X TeX] .tex documents automatically "linked" with Excalibur, not TeXShop

[Vince McGarry]

I had a  similar problem, but once I restarted the machine all of the 
icons changed to reflect the correct application.

Vince

On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 07:41  AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Has anybody encountered this problem: now and then all .tex files are 
> suddenly considered by the Finder as Excalibur files (judging by their 
> icon, and the information displayed in the Show Info window for them). 
> This is all the more annoying as I installed Excalibur on my disk just 
> in case, but I generally do spell checking by hand without using the 
> computer and I have never opened Excalibur on purpose so far.
>
> It wasn't so much of a nuisance as I just had to open a Show Info 
> window for any .tex file, go to "Open with...", select TeXShop and 
> then "Modify all...". But now under OS 10.2.1 it's no longer working: 
> in the Show Info window, when I select "Open with..." TeXShop just for 
> the current file it's OK, but as soon as I click on "Modify all..." 
> the selection goes back to Excalibur.
>
> I have the impression this problem manifests itself only for files 
> with empty Creator and/or Type fields, for example:
>
> [legimc11:~] applcom% /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo 
> /Users/applcom/Library/texmf/tex/cupplain/uplain.tex
> file: "/Users/applcom/Library/texmf/tex/cupplain/uplain.tex"
> type: ""
> creator: ""
> attributes: avbstclInmed
> created: 05/23/2000 11:25:37
> modified: 09/21/2002 14:21:33
>
> Anybody any idea?
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
>
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