Re: AbiWord ambush on my mac

The "Get Info" trick worked - and globally. In that window I click on
'open with' and chose Microsoft Word to open 'all documents like this.'
  Then, once again, I went to a webmail account and mailed myself a
couple of Word documents. And this time they arrived as Word
attachments.

So the problem is solved and the mystery ... semi-solved. How AbiWord
elected itself as the opener of incoming Word documents will remain
obscure, I suspect. Thanks everybody for solving this one, and special
thanks to Randall.

Judith

On Feb 1, 2007, at 3:04 AM, Randall Wood wrote:

>
> Try the "Get Info" trick on an attachment that has been moved to the
> desktop or to a Finder window, since when opening the attachment, Mail
> just passes it to the "open" command which is influenced by the
> Finder's Get Info windows.
>
> The "Open with" menu items just tell the open command to open the file
> with a specific program...
>
> On 1 Feb 2007, at 01:05, Judith Rascoe wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Andy Korvemaker wrote:
>>>
>>> Like mentioned by others, it sounds like AbiWord has been assigned to
>>> open some types of Word documents. I believe this is a system-wide
>>> setting, so changing it once should make it work from now on.
>>>
>>> I recommend trying these steps:
>>> 1. Find an email with one of the MS Word files that opens in AbiWord
>>> instead. Choose to save the attachment from within Mail. I
>>> recommend
>>> saving it somewhere easy to access, such as the Desktop.
>>> 2. I think the file will appear with an AbiWord icon.
>>> 3. Right-click (or Control-click) the file and select Get Info.
>>> 4. Under the Open With section, it should list AbiWord. Pick MS Word
>>> (or whatever application you'd like to use to open the files)
>>> from
>>> the list, and then click the Change All... button.
>>> 5. In the confirmation box that appears, press Continue (if you're
>>> sure
>>> you'd like to transfer ownership of that type of file to MS
>>> Word).
>>>
>>> I think that should do it.
>>
>> It does do it! I right-clicked on the attachment, got "open as" -
>> didn't even have to use "get info" - and chose MSWord. It opened just
>> fine there.
>>
>> So the problem is solved, practically. But the mystery lingers. This
>> evening I used a web mail account to mail two MSWord documents to
>> myself at my usual Mail account. One of them arrived as an AbiWord
>> document, the other as an unspecified document file. How AbiWord has
>> got assigned to open some word documents I do not know or understand,
>> and I'd like to. But at least now I have a problem I can live with.
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Judith
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Let us know if that helps.
>>>
>>> andy
>>> --
>>> Andy Korvemaker
>>> http://andyland.ca
>>>
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