Re: Unfortunate Side Effect of Upgrading to Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg128879] Re: Unfortunate Side Effect of Upgrading to Mathematica
- From: RaÃl MartÃnez <rm.tech at mac.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 04:57:00 -0500 (EST)
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Math v9 works fine on my MacBook Pro with Lion. There is no AppleScript confusion such as Stein describes. Everything is normal. HTH, Ra=C3=BAl Sent from my iPad On Dec 1, 2012, at 1:35 AM, George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com> wrote: > I just checked, and the .nb files open correctly in Mathematica. You may h= ave an anomaly peculiar to your system. > > I did not check, but I am sure that the .m files will still want to open i= n Xcode if you double click the file icon. > > george > > On Nov 30, 2012, at 5:57 AM, James Stein <mathgroup at stein.org> wrote: > >> >> I upgraded from v8 to v9 this morning, and all >> pre-existing Mathematica Notebook files (extension .nb) have been modifie= d >> to open with the AppleScript editor. >> >> This is easily remedied by applying the "Get Info" command on one of the >> notebooks; changing the "Open With:" item from "AppleScript Editor" to >> "Mathematica", and clicking the "Change All" button to effect the change >> for all notebook files --- but this has the nasty side effect of changing= >> the modification date of all your notebook files to the current date&time= ! >> >> This is unfortunate because notebooks in a given folder can no longer be >> compared by age. >> >> I hope I made some error and this does not happen to others..... >> >> If others wish to do this, you might wish to do this on a folder-by-folde= r >> basis: Select all the notebooks in a folder, press the option key along >> with the command key and you will get a single Get Info window for all yo= ur >> selected notebooks; this allows you to make the change for several >> notebooks at a time, but not all notebooks on your computer. >> >> For those who have little or no use for the AppleScript editor, perhaps a= >> different solution is to replace the AppleScript Editor application with a= n >> alias to the Mathematica application. I haven't tried this yet.... >> >> There may be utilities that allow you to change the "Open With" informati= on >> without changing the file dates. I haven't searched for them yet. >> >> > >