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shmoolie
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Dec 28, 2005, 02:39 PM
 
Where can I set an application to open certain types of files that I download from Safari? I want to set Excel to always open .php docs that are downloaded from our CRM. OS is 10.4.3. It was doing this with 10.3.9 but when I upgraded to 10.4.3 and did a clean install it lost this ability.
     
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Dec 28, 2005, 02:49 PM
 
If you Get Info (command+I) on a .php file and click the Open With disclosure triangle you can associate that file with Excel; when you do that you can also choose to click the Change All button so that all .php files will open in Excel, including ones not sent from that source (CRM). You seem to want to open the files in Excel only if they're from that source, which OS X cannot easily do. Now if the OS selectively chose Excel for those CRM .php files, they must have been set with Excel's classic Mac OS creator code. Hope I've understood the issue and provided some assistance.

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shmoolie  (op)
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Dec 28, 2005, 05:59 PM
 
Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess I looked every place but that.
     
   
 
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