Re: AbiWord ambush on my mac

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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