Hey Eric,
This was a great tip. I was skeptical. I didn't even know Get Info had
that feature (I've only used Mac forever. Shows how observant I am).
It worked like a charm. I converted all jpegs, tiffs, and png files.
Now they all open in Photoshop.

Deb

Deborah Tinsley
Visual Resources
Kansas City Art Institute
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Eric Wright <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Andre
>
> This may have been covered or irrelevant but you can control the default app for file types within the finder.
> Do Get info on a file. The option tis there for Open With and can be set for all documents of this type.
> My be then FM will use Photoshop.
>
> Kind Regards
> Eric
>
> On 05/05/2011, at 9:50 AM, André Boey wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the clarification, Tim. I need to work on integrating my AppleScripting with FileMaker a little better.  ;-)
>>
>> Andre
>>
>> On May 4, 2011, at 18:20, Tim Mansour wrote:
>>
>>> On 5 May 2011 07:33, André Boey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
>>>>       tell database "Database Name"
>>>>               tell table "Table Name"
>>>>                       set filePath to cell "global Field Name"
>>>>               end tell
>>>>       end tell
>>>> end tell
>>>
>>> That's not necessary André.
>>>
>>> For starters, the script is being run within the FileMaker context so
>>> the first "tell" statement is redundant.
>>>
>>> Also, it's fair to assume that Deb's FileMaker script will be run from
>>> a context where the field "Photo
>>> Catalog::File Path" evaluates correctly so we can use that field
>>> without having to first set a global. (Plus, you forgot to mention
>>> that the script would first need to set the value of the global
>>> field.)
>>>
>>>> If the path is not a Mac-style
>>>> path but a Unix-style one, you'll have to use Substitute to replace the
>>>> slashes with colons.
>>>
>>> Sorry to be pedantic, but it's not necessarily as simple as that.
>>> Translating from a Unix- to a Mac-style file path is best done by
>>> using:
>>>
>>> POSIX file filepath
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> set foo to "/Users/tim/Desktop/image.jpg"
>>> POSIX file foo
>>> --> file "Macintosh HD:Users:tim:Desktop:image.jpg"
>>>
>>> HTH.
>>>
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