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kevs · Mar 19, 2005, 04:57 PM

I think, am I right, that you can choose only one app to open up certain type file.

I would like to have folder of jpegs in which PHotoshop opened these up, and another folder of jpegs which opened with Preview. Possible?

analogika · Mar 19, 2005, 05:23 PM

Originally posted by kevs:
I think, am I right, that you can choose only one app to open up certain type file.

I would like to have folder of jpegs in which PHotoshop opened these up, and another folder of jpegs which opened with Preview. Possible?

Select all the documents in question, then do a Command-I or "File" --> "Get Info..." and change the "Open with..." application setting.

kevs · Mar 20, 2005, 12:29 AM

You did not understand the question.

Let me rephrase:

I would like to have folder of jpegs in which in one folder, these jpegs would open in PHotoshop -- these are images I need to work on in Photoshop.

And in another folder the jpegs would open in Preview. These are just images I don't need to open in PHotoshop, I just want to take a quick look at. Is this possible? thanks.

nbn22385 · Mar 20, 2005, 12:41 AM

I am pretty sure that analogika has the correct solution to your question. Instead of telling a file to open in a certain app, you are doing a batch action that affects all files that are selected.

analogika · Mar 20, 2005, 02:12 AM

Originally posted by kevs:
You did not understand the question.

You did not understand the reply.

Try it out.

1.) Select all jpegs in the folder that you want opened via Photoshop,
2.) then hit Apple-i, and
3.) head for the "Open with..." section.
4.) Select Photoshop from the pull-down menu.
5.) there is no #5.

All jpegs in that folder will now be opened by Photoshop when you double-click them.
All others will still be opened by Preview.

You are wrong about choosing one application per file type. This is not Windows. You can set a different application on a per-file basis.

What about your question am I missing?

Apfhex · Mar 20, 2005, 01:56 PM

Are you asking that, once a JPEG file is placed inside a certain folder, it should open in the app you want based on what folder it's in? If so, I haven't ever used it, but OS X has something called Folder Actions, maybe those would do what you want with a script. I'm sure someone else knows more about that.

kevs · Mar 20, 2005, 09:53 PM

I'm getting bit confused, so let's start from scratch:

If I have a jpegs all over my computer, and do command i, and select to open with PHotoshop, and select change all (... use this application to open all documents like this) to PHotoshop, that mean all jpegs on my hard drive, will open now in photoshop, correct?

If this is correct, what's weird, is that some jpegs still open in preview, and what's even weirder, never seen this before, is that while I have preview in my dock on far left in hide mode, another 2nd dock icon pops up on the extreme right. I have to active preview dock icons -- never seen that before.

analogika · Mar 21, 2005, 05:10 AM

Originally posted by kevs:
while I have preview in my dock on far left in hide mode, another 2nd dock icon pops up on the extreme right. I have to active preview dock icons -- never seen that before.

"on the far right" meaning between the divider and the Trash?

Youre not hiding (Apple-H or "Application name"-menu --> "Hide" - this will hide all windows of the application in question), you're minimizing (Apple-M or click in the yellow button at the top of the window).

Minimized windows get sucked down to your Dock.

Millennium · Mar 21, 2005, 07:10 AM

I'm not very familiar with Folder Actions, but you might be able to do something with this. Set it so that whenever a file is added to the folder, it checks the extension and filetype (if there is a filetype). If either one is a kind you want opened by this program, then you set the file's creator to match that program. This wouldn't work for any files already in the folder, but you could use Analogika's solution to deal with them and the folder action for any future stuff.

I know of no OS which allows you to specify file associations by folder. That said, it sounds kind of neat. Is this for some kind of workflow thing, such that the file would be passed from folder to folder as it got further along in the process?

kevs · Mar 21, 2005, 09:18 PM

Analogika:
I'm taking about 2 preview icons on the left side of the dock, nothing minimized.

analogika · Mar 22, 2005, 02:27 AM

Originally posted by kevs:
Analogika:
I'm taking about 2 preview icons on the left side of the dock, nothing minimized.

Command (Apple)-Click on the preview icons to have their originals revealed in the Finder.

Sounds like you have two copies installed for some reason.