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- New Creator
- Written by Dominic Mazzoni
- © 1991
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- New Creator is a simple, yet powerful program designed to enhance the ease of
- use of the Macintosh. New Creator fixes the creator of some files, making them
- openable from the Finder. It requires a Macintosh Plus or higher, preferrably with a hard
- disk, and System 4.1 and up. I am distributing this program as ShareWare: Feel free to
- try New Creator and give it to anyone you wish, but I ask that you always include this
- documentation with it. You may not sell it for a profit. If you decide to use New
- Creator, send $10 or however much money it’s worth to you to my address shown at the
- bottom of this text.
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- The main objective of New Creator is to reduce the number of times users see this Finder
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- This alert (pictured above) appears when you try to open a document that the Finder
- doesn’t recognize. The easiest way to get around this alert is to open the file from within a
- different application, but it is still inconvenient and confusing, especially on a large hard
- disk. New Creator can eliminate this step by changing the creator of the file that doesn’t
- open. The advantage of this method is that you can do your entire hard disk once and for
- all. This can be done with many utility programs, but New Creator makes it much easier
- and it can search an entire Hard Disk or just a specific folder for files to change.
- Be warned that if used improperly, New Creator can change the creator of a
- document to the wrong application, actually causing that Finder Alert to appear. If you do
- change the wrong file, or many files, it is just as easy to change them back. However, if
- you follow these instructions, there is virtually no risk of anything going wrong.
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- Step 1: Set Default Applications
- • Open New Creator and click the Preferences button.
- • Choose the application you would like Paint, Pict, and Text files to open. If
- you do not deal with one of those types, simply ignore them for now.
- • Click on the button displaying the name of an application for each of the file
- types, then select the application you would like to replace it with in the
- dialog box that appears.
- • When you are finished, click the OK button. If you made a mistake, you
- can click the Cancel button.
- Step 2: Change One File
- • Make sure the File radio button is selected at the top-left corner of the
- window.
- • Use the pop-up menu labeled From: and choose the file type you would like
- to change.
- • Click the Choose File button and open any document that does not open
- from the Finder.
- • If you would like to verify that you chose the correct document, click the
- Examine File button and you will see a small portion of the file in a
- window.
- • Click the Change Creator button.
- Step 3: Check the File
- • To make sure that everything went okay, quit the program and find the file
- you changed in Step 2 from the Finder.
- • Select Get Info for that file. Check that the file now belongs to the program
- you selected in Step 1.
- • If it does, close Get Info and open the file.
- • The correct application should now open the document and import it as a
- new document. If it does, you may quit that application and proceed with
- New Creator.
- • If you get an error message, this application is probably incompatible with
- the file you just changed and you must choose another (Go back to step 1).
- Step 4: Search a Volume
- • Assuming that you tested one file in steps 2 and 3, you can now search an
- entire volume for files of a specific type.
- • Open New Creator and set the From: pop-up menu appropriately, just as
- you did in step 2.
- • Select the Volume radio button and click the Choose Volume button.
- • Now use the standard dialog box to get to the volume you would like to
- search. When it is open, click the Select button.
- • If the name of the volume displayed next to Item Selected: is correct, click
- the Search Volume button. An alert appears to verify what you just chose to
- do, and if it is correct, click the OK button. The search is very quick,
- taking seconds on a disk, and hardly more than a minute on a large hard
- disk.
- • When it has completed, another alert tells you it is finished.
- Step 5: Search a Folder
- • This optional step is a more complicated, but slightly more versatile way of
- searching a volume, especially if you want some files of a certain type
- changed but not others.
- • Proceed exactly as in step 4, substituting Folder for Volume.
- • When it is time to select the folder to search, you must open the folder, then
- click Select.
- • Only files within that folder and folders within that folder will be searched.
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- As I stated at the beginning, please send your payment to me if you choose to use
- this program so I can create more useful utilities for the benifit of everyone. I would also
- appreciate comments (almost as much as money!) and suggestions for future versions. If
- you find an important bug in New Creator that causes a problem, send a detailed
- description of the problem and I will try to send you a corrected version. Thank you for
- your support.
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- Dominic Mazzoni
- 18518 61st Place West
- Lynnwood, WA 98037-7202
- (206) 778-5119
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