BLOBs to files - works great but...

[Alex Adams]

Thanks one an all.  Setting the fileType to empty solved my problem.
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> From: Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:08:13 +1000
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: BLOBs to files - works great but...
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Alex Adams <alex at a2technology.com> wrote:
>> I have recently added the ability to store files in BLOBs and everything
>> works fine on the way in and on the way out.  Thanks Zryip TheSlug for your
>> explanations.
>> 
>> What isn¹t working for me yet is a lack of autonomy of the files restored to
>> a Mac OS X.  The files work just fine, if opened by a program that uses the
>> file type, but the finder always opens them in a text editor.
> 
> 
> Check out "the filetype" in the docs.
> By default, Rev sets the filetype to "ttxtTEXT" which means that any
> file saved will appear to be a text file.
> You can set the file type to the required creator code & type, but now
> that Apple no longer supports creator codes, it is much easier just to
> set the filetype to empty and let the Finder use the file extension to
> sort out which application to use for each file type.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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