Comments | jhogan: [Tech] Help with OSX bug?

jhogan

[Tech] Help with OSX bug?

Dec 18, 2008 17:12

Double-clicking on .txt files does nothing for me. Well, the icon does it's little "zoom out of the screen towards you" animation like it's going to do something, but TextEdit doesn't actually launch.

TextEdit is the associated application for .txt files. I've set it by going into the "Get Info" panel (command-I) for a .text file, selecting " ( Read more... )

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this MAY help the_designdiva December 19 2008, 04:23:00 UTC

Launch TextEdit and choose Open. Check 'Ignore Rich Text Commands' If this doesn't do it, try the same thing but also select Unicode (UTF-8).

I dunno, that worked for me a couple times.

Re: this MAY help jhogan December 20 2008, 02:03:06 UTC

Gave it a shot, but no luck... thanks anyway!

prodos December 19 2008, 08:33:45 UTC

It sounds like your LaunchServices is fubared. LaunchServices is the infrastructure in OS X that handles all the filetype associations and stuff. I happen to have a couple officemates that know a great deal about this since we had to beat it into submission for some of the stuff we did in Fusion 2.0.

They recommend giving this a shot:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486

jhogan December 20 2008, 02:02:55 UTC

Hey, I didn't know you worked at VMWare! Far out. Is Gertzfield still there? I never was able to figure out why I was supposed to upgrade to Fusion 2 BTW, I kept getting these marketing e-mails but they didn't seem to explain what any of the advantages were :-)

Anyway, the idea on that page was a no-go -- the command worked fine, but the problem is still there. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

prodos December 20 2008, 05:00:34 UTC

Yup, Ben is on the Fusion team as well!

If the various new features from the marketing feature weren't doing it for you I can merely list a few more techie bullet points:
* We made a bunch of the UI less ugly, particularly the Library and Settings.
* The virtualization core has an added year of maturity.
* We fixed a ton of bugs in Unity.
* Each new OS X version and new piece of Apple hardware manages to break us in weird little ways so I wouldn't be surprised if you had some strange issues trying to run 1.1.x on 10.5.6.

Sorry to hear that didn't work. What happens if you run "open filename.txt" from terminal?

prodos December 20 2008, 05:29:03 UTC

Oh yeah, I forgot my favorite part. You can make it so clicking links in the Guest (like in Outlook) opens them in the Host.

Ok, so my LaunchServices friends have some more extreme measures to try in that case... they say:

1. Delete /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-*.csstore
2. Delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist and com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEvents (if it exists).
3. Restart the computer, empty the trash.
4. Run the command:
Tiger: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -f -domain local -domain system -domain user
Leopard: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -f -all local,system,user

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