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New Creator
Written by Dominic Mazzoni
ゥ 1991
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ユs worth to you to my address shown at the
bottom of this text.
The main objective of New Creator is to reduce the number of times users see this Finder
Alert:
This alert (pictured above) appears when you try to open a document that the Finder
doesnユ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ユ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.
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.
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.
Dominic Mazzoni
18518 61st Place West
Lynnwood, WA 98037-7202
(206) 778-5119