how to open 'non-mac' stacks from within Rev on a Mac

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/2/04 7:07 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance...
> 
> I've been saving from my PC to a Windows Share, then opening it on the Mac,
> but the Mac doesn't want to let me open it. So, I have to drag/drop it on
> the Rev icon and it opens. I can then save and everything's fine. On the PC,
> in the open/save dialog, there's a dropdown menu which allows you to open
> 'All Files.' Does such a thing exist on the Mac? Also, frequently I leave
> off the .rev extension for a stack, do I just have to drag/drop these stacks
> on top of the Rev App icon to launch them, or is there an easier way?

The stacks probably don't have type and creator codes, and the Mac 
doesn't know what to do with the ".rev" extension. There are bunch of 
ways to solve this.

I have a little applescript that sets the type and creator codes to 
Rev's. You can drop the stacks onto it and they get fixed. I can send it 
to you in email if you want. It's handy if you have a lot of stacks you 
want to change at once.

Or you can right-click (or control-click) on the stack in the Finder to 
get a contextual menu, and choose "Open with..." and then choose Revolution.

If the stack has a ".rev" extension, you can select it and choose Get 
Info from the contextual menu, or from the Finder's File menu. Expand 
the "Open with" arrow and choose Revolution as the app to open this 
file. Then click the "change all" button to tell the Mac how to open all 
stacks named ".rev".

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