October 2009
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Creator codes
John Gruber makes all the right points (http://daringfireball.net/2009/10/congrtlns-osx) but fails to mention one crucial one: There never was an (official) interface to set creator codes. He correctly concludes that:
“The creator code long ago stopped meaning “the app that created the file”, and instead meant “the app this file should open with by default”.
If people had used the...