[MindFad]

I know that you can change this on a file through Get Info, but I'm talking like you could in OS 9. I forget the name of the control panel now. File Exchange?

Anyway, for example, say I download an MP3—it'll automatically be set to open with iTunes instead of QuickTime, for example. Or a WMV will be specified to open in VLC sometimes, and other times it will download for WiMP. Or say I want all downloaded or new MPG, but I want them to automatically be set to open with VLC instead of QT player. Or even torrent files (I have a few different apps for them).

Or can you set this in Safari somehow? I remember being able to do this in the 9 days, but it's been so long.

[Earth Mk. II]

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[MindFad]

Ooooh, many thanks. It would be cool if Apple could add this somewhere. I never did like the fact that they removed the "default browser" bit from System prefs, and that you actually need Safari to set that manually. (Unless other browsers do that now, I dunno.)

[Earth Mk. II]

Yeah, that never made much sense to me - it's a system wide pref, it should be in system preferences.

I think the idea is that an app should register for the services itself (either by asking at launch, or though the app's preferences), which - in theory - is a cleaner way to do things... if apps actually did it well or at all.

[Apfhex]

I'm using RCDefault App. It does more than change the MIME types and default internet applications, you can change what file extension belongs to what application. I think Apple should include something like this as a utility, at least.