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Awhile back, I was using BBEdit to edit a prefs file... this was suggested by a hack that I was trying at some point recently.
Now I see that all my prefs files are BBEdit files? (I definitely did NOT use the "open all files of this type with this app" option.)
How do I revert everything back?
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What were the prefs before? Maybe if they don't have a filetype and then something opens them, OS X thinks it should use that filetype for all of them. I dunno! Strange.
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Tofer, looking at a couple of the prefs, they usually didn't have an icon (meaning, a blank icon) -- there are still a few of them in there like that. That's how they were originally. If I get info on one of these ones, under the "open with", it says "". Obviously, I cannot change the BBEdit-opening ones to "None", since that's not a selectable option. The other thing I notice that's odd about it is that it seems the BBEdit ones all end in .plist, whereas other prefs files that don't apparently weren't changed. So it's as if everything got changed as a function of the file suffix.
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Hmmm... a little more checking, it seems that what happens is that once you put BBEdit on your system, and open at least one file of this type, it gets added as the default app to open these files with. So these are XML files, with BBEdit as the default app to open... I would just like to be able to reset their filetype/creator codes back to nothing, so that BBEdit is not the default to open with...
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instead of nothing, change them back to the property list editor app, assuming of course that you have it installed.
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Monster, I don't think I have that installed.
Shouldn't it be possible to change their creator/type codes to nothing? I just tried one of them with FileBuddy, and it would let me change the code, but it wouldn't let me save it once changed...
