Answer File on Mac OS X

[Bob Sneidar]

Hi Marty. Thanks for the reply.

Actually I just solved my own problem (again) by downloading and installing Quick Change, a utility that shows the actual 4 character file type. (works in Mavericks) For PDF’s it’s “PDF “ (note the SPACE AFTER PDF). If I use that with the “of type” form, it works a peach. There is no way I know of, besides some obscure terminal command which I am sure exists, to get the file TYPE of a document in OS X.

It ought to be something you can see in the Get Info dialog, but alas, these days we are at the mercy of our system developer gurus, they being really, REALLY smart IT guys right out of college, who nonetheless have no real world experience in the every day problems we face. Thankfully, the geniuses of years heretofore seem to have the solutions we crave, if we would but GOOGLE long and hard enough. ;-)

Bob Sneidar
IT Technician
Integrated Office Technology
bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com<mailto:bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
714-401-2407



On Nov 27, 2013, at 20:12 , Marty Knapp <martyknappster at gmail.com<mailto:martyknappster at gmail.com>> wrote:

Bob,
I think you're looking for the "with type" parameter, like this:

answer file "Select file to open:" with type "*|pdf"

Marty

Hi all.

I know this has been visited (many times) before, but I have tried every iteration of answer file (of type/with filter) on Mac OS X and for whatever reason I cannot for the life of me exclude ALL FILES EXCEPT those with a .pdf extension! When I run this on Windows using the filter variation it works famously, but on OS X Mavericks, I see ALL FILES or the files are greyed out.

Any help would be appreciated.

Bob Sneidar
IT Technician
Integrated Office Technology
bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com<mailto:bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com><mailto:bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
714-401-2407





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