type identifier or file type

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Does SL not support file type?

When i do “info for X” i get empty results file type and file creator. Am i supposed to use type identifier now?

file type:"

#2

What is the file? Upload it.

#3

File Type and Creator Type can be no-value if they’ve been through some Windows and UNIX systems, non-Mac-aware TAR archives, etc. which ignore, and thus strip, that information.

The type identifier is not terribly reliable in some cases. I found this out the hard way with Adobe files in particular.

#4

Upload the file. It might have an extenion that is equivlent to another one, so I change it, ect. Upload it and your problem could even be fixed with AppleScript!

#5

Under MacOS X, lot of apps no longer set the file_type and file_creator attributes.

We are supposed to use type identifiers but many of them aren’t deciphered by the system.

You may add type identifiers as I did under 10.4 for CSV files.

I saved this huge script :


set csvFile to choose file of type {"public.csv", "public.comma-separated-values-text"}

as an application package.

Then, I entered in the package and edited its info.plist file.

I created an
UTImportedTypeDeclaration
Array

and inserted an entry so it resembled to :

<key>UTImportedTypeDeclarations</key>
<array>
	<dict>
		<key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
		<array>
			<string>public.composite-content</string>
			<string>public.data</string>
		</array>
		<key>UTTypeDescription</key>
		<string>CSV family</string>
		<key>UTTypeIconName</key>
		<string>Document.icns</string>
		<key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
		<string>public.comma-separated-values-text</string>
		<key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
		<dict>
			<key>com.apple.macos.ostype</key>
			<string>CSV </string>
			<key>public.filename-extension</key>
			<array>
				<string>csv</string>
			</array>
		</dict>
	</dict>
</array>

You may build entries for the files which you want to easily identify.
When it’s done, run the script_app.
Your type_identifiers will be grabbed by the system and after that you will be able to use them in every tools.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 22 mai 2010 14:02:42