Hi Deb,

Glad it worked.
Like you I'm a long time mac user and I think the developers snuck it in and didn't tell us !
Found it one day when I was idly looking over the Get Info for something to do with permissions.
Not like you'd spend a lot of time there.

Kind Regards
Eric

On 06/05/2011, at 1:20 AM, Deborah Tinsley wrote:

> 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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>>