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From: Peter Ceresole on 24 Jun 2010 09:39 I have a friend with a relatively new iMac (much newer than mine- I'm jealous) running eith 10.5.8 or 10.6.something. She can't manage to open .zip files, which seems very odd to me... If she does a spotlight search, from the menu bar, on '.zip', she can double click the zip files and they open okay, but not if she double clicks on a zip file in the Finder. What the hell is going on? I'm going to be round there on Saturday. My instinct is to highlight a zip file, do a 'Get info' and change 'open with' to... What? Here, it appears to use BOMArchivehelper.app, which is the default. This doesn't seem to come up on her machine. And I can't find it with Spotlight (on the phone, this is). I know it must be there on her machine by default, but I'm damned if I'm going to install Stuffit Expander when she has an application to do it already. Plus, in Finder, Cmd-F defaults to opening an old-type Find application; on my iG5 (and MBP), it opens Spotlight, which is far superior. Without actually seeing her iMac, how do I go about getting her to configure Cmd-F to open Spotlight? I must point out that, on this iG5 and earlier on a MBP, I never had to fart about like this. -- Peter
From: Chris Ridd on 24 Jun 2010 10:13 On 2010-06-24 14:39:18 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: > I have a friend with a relatively new iMac (much newer than mine- I'm > jealous) running eith 10.5.8 or 10.6.something. > > She can't manage to open .zip files, which seems very odd to me... If > she does a spotlight search, from the menu bar, on '.zip', she can > double click the zip files and they open okay, but not if she double > clicks on a zip file in the Finder. > > What the hell is going on? > > I'm going to be round there on Saturday. My instinct is to highlight a > zip file, do a 'Get info' and change 'open with' to... What? > > Here, it appears to use BOMArchivehelper.app, which is the default. This > doesn't seem to come up on her machine. And I can't find it with > Spotlight (on the phone, this is). In 10.6 it is called "Archive Utility" and it is squirreled away in somewhere that Spotlight deliberately doesn't index: /System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app. I think BOMArchiveHelper may be there in 10.5. > > I know it must be there on her machine by default, but I'm damned if I'm > going to install Stuffit Expander when she has an application to do it > already. > > Plus, in Finder, Cmd-F defaults to opening an old-type Find application; > on my iG5 (and MBP), it opens Spotlight, which is far superior. Without > actually seeing her iMac, how do I go about getting her to configure > Cmd-F to open Spotlight? System Preferences > Spotlight > Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut, however that will subvert Cmd-F in normal apps. I'd encourage her to learn Cmd-Space, TBH. -- Chris
From: Peter Ceresole on 24 Jun 2010 10:41 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > I'd encourage her to learn Cmd-Space, TBH. I've never used that, never needed to. But now I will get her to use it. Thank you. -- Peter
From: Rowland McDonnell on 26 Jun 2010 07:52 J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > John Hill <nemo(a)erewhon.invalid> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: [snip] > > I think so - I regularly get e-mails from Aladdin offering me upgrades > > to later versions with all sorts of add-on goodies. I still have a copy > > of StuffIt Deluxe 12, but it's not installed.... > > > > However, it does have DropStuff in it. > > Yes, but why would you want to stuff anything at all? Pre OS X, it was a better idea in general than using zipping. > The useful thingie is DropZip, > (which will zip many files at one) Surely there are other tools for doing that job? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Peter Ceresole on 27 Jun 2010 05:31
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > She can't manage to open .zip files, which seems very odd to me... I finally got there; her machine (an iMac) opens Zips beautifully. Not the problem. People have been sending her gzips. Why the hell they have been doing that I have no idea. And although recent, it's not all the same people, so it's not some global fuckup. I suppose I should have installed something to open them, but I can't imagine that she will be getting loads of them, and it was a hot day... But I seem to remember Stuffit Expander handling gzips, and I had a copy on a thumb drive... And it wouldn't open *her* gzips. Oh well, never mind... -- Peter |