On 2011-01-25 [+0900 JST], at 4:30 PM, Gene Reeves wrote:

> I wonder if anyone has an idea as to why the information panel (at least in OS 10.4.11) does not give NWP as an option for opening older Nisus files.

My OS X installation (10.6.6) does not seem to be affected by the oddity. And I don't have a precise memory about my Tiger days. I have no idea except that, if you have installed one of my droplets* for restoring NW Classic document icons in OS X 10.4.7 and higher, perhaps it may be the culprit. If so, sorry, I don't know a work around and cannot solve the problem for I don't have a working Mac running Tiger.

* DropOpenWithNW513.app, DropOpenWithNW603.app or DropOpenWithNW65.app in
<http://www2.odn.ne.jp/alt-quinon/files/varia/DropOpenWithNW.zip>
IIRC droplet name appears as DropScript:OpenWithNW603 or something alike in the Services menu.


BTW, when I was using one of them myself, I did not understand well how and why it worked. Restoring the icon was not the purpose of my creating them. Now I tend to think Tiger's lost Classic icon bug is not a bug but something intended. Presumably Apple tried to urge the Classic environment users to abandon it by breaking the association between Classic applications and files created by them. Those droplets restore the file icons because they are *native* OS X applications (Cocoa) associated with 'Nisus® Writer Document'.


Kino