After installing hex exit I find my .dmg files now think they are hex edit files, displaying the hex edit icon, and opening in hex edit when I click on them. It is possible that my .dmg s were misconfigured before hex edit was installed, as netscape didn't know how what to do with one, but at least they mounted when clicked. How does one go about fixing this?
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2. Apple's brain dead decision to drop file types and only use the suffix of files to determine which programs to open data files with.
The solution in your case is to use Mac OS X's "Get Info" dialog on one of your .dmg files. You will notice there is a "Apple to All" button; after selecting Disk Utility as the application to open .dmg files click the apply all button.
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Thanks, I figured it was something easy like that. Actually I agree with Apple on #2. I think the whole apple file system history has been a tragic case of "let's be totally different and incomapatible with the whole world, for some functionality we could have just as easily could have done a more conventional way". And I don't mean compatible with Micros**tm I mean compatible with real OSs.
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The fault is on HexEdit. After installing HexEdit on a brand new Mac, it took over all of my extensions that do not have any associated programs, AND my .dmg files.
How do I remove it from all extensions?
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First, apologies on the delayed response: my email server decided to cache a bunch of emails last January and I just now realized it :(
Anyway, the fault really is NOT on HexEdit. See, HexEdit has a program "ID" it uses. It also has a data file "ID" associated with the program id. HexEdit does not modify any system settings AT ALL.
The problem is that most programs on Mac OS X default "unknown" binary files to HexEdit's data file ID, which is of course associated with HexEdit. Now, if HexEdit is not installed, then the file's suffix (.sit, .dmg) is used as a backup to figure out what program to use to open the file. Then, if at a later time you put HexEdit on the Mac the finder will suddenly realize it's found the program that owns all those files and use HexEdit (via the data file "ID" assigned by the program that downloaded the file) to open the files. (this also causes the files to gain the HexEdit data file icon in most cases.)
There is absolutely NOTHING that HexEdit does to cause this, other than simply existing. The only way to prevent this would be to change the HexEdit program and data file ID ... but that would then make people angy who expected the files with the current id's to work as they do now but would not because the id's would break with such a change.
Hope that makes sense.
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After installing hex exit I find my .dmg files now think they are hex edit files, displaying the hex edit icon, and opening in hex edit when I click on them. It is possible that my .dmg s were misconfigured before hex edit was installed, as netscape didn't know how what to do with one, but at least they mounted when clicked. How does one go about fixing this?
This is due to two problems;
1. Netscape not being configured correctly
2. Apple's brain dead decision to drop file types and only use the suffix of files to determine which programs to open data files with.
The solution in your case is to use Mac OS X's "Get Info" dialog on one of your .dmg files. You will notice there is a "Apple to All" button; after selecting Disk Utility as the application to open .dmg files click the apply all button.
Thanks, I figured it was something easy like that. Actually I agree with Apple on #2. I think the whole apple file system history has been a tragic case of "let's be totally different and incomapatible with the whole world, for some functionality we could have just as easily could have done a more conventional way". And I don't mean compatible with Micros**tm I mean compatible with real OSs.
The fault is on HexEdit. After installing HexEdit on a brand new Mac, it took over all of my extensions that do not have any associated programs, AND my .dmg files.
How do I remove it from all extensions?
First, apologies on the delayed response: my email server decided to cache a bunch of emails last January and I just now realized it :(
Anyway, the fault really is NOT on HexEdit. See, HexEdit has a program "ID" it uses. It also has a data file "ID" associated with the program id. HexEdit does not modify any system settings AT ALL.
The problem is that most programs on Mac OS X default "unknown" binary files to HexEdit's data file ID, which is of course associated with HexEdit. Now, if HexEdit is not installed, then the file's suffix (.sit, .dmg) is used as a backup to figure out what program to use to open the file. Then, if at a later time you put HexEdit on the Mac the finder will suddenly realize it's found the program that owns all those files and use HexEdit (via the data file "ID" assigned by the program that downloaded the file) to open the files. (this also causes the files to gain the HexEdit data file icon in most cases.)
There is absolutely NOTHING that HexEdit does to cause this, other than simply existing. The only way to prevent this would be to change the HexEdit program and data file ID ... but that would then make people angy who expected the files with the current id's to work as they do now but would not because the id's would break with such a change.
Hope that makes sense.