can anyone tell me why one of the macs at my work wont give me the option to open .err files from our mac server using simpletext all the other macs ask the user to choose an application to open the file, they choose simpletext and it opens fine i tried running simpletext then browsed to the file on the server and it opened fine, but there must be a reason why simpletext is not provided as one of the applications to open the file when it asks me which program to use to view the file the mac that wont give the option to use simpletext has the application in 3 locations: apple menu items photoshop 5.5 illustrator 8.0 some replys to a similar question i posted told me to download some free software, there was be something wrong with this mac because all the other macs work fine so if you know why this is please let me know thanks

Do not start new threads just because you don't like the answers you got before. p

The Macs that are giving the user an option to select an application to open the document, when you double-click on the document's icon, are probably running MacLinkPlus (a control panel, extension, and some support files, mainly in a folder named "Dataviz" in the System Folder)--it's the only utility on the Mac that I know of, that will do this. The reason MacLink is doing this, is probably because the file you're trying to open has a Type code of "TEXT", but a Creator code for some application that's not installed on these Macs' hard drives.

I correct myself: the "File Exchange" control panel will also do what you're describing. It sometimes works in conjunction with MacLinkPlus. Open the File Exchange control panel and play with its settings; you may have to add a new definition, telling it to open .err files with Simpletext. Sorry, I don't know the exact steps to do this, but give it a try.

an excellent response from jonsaw making this a simple problem to solve anyone experiencing this problem should goto the file exchange control panel and configure as appropriate thanks :o)

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hello it's me again ok i found another solution if you have another mac to hand, simply copy the file exhange preferences file to the other mac worked for me