Scripting file associations

[jarednichols]

Hi-

Does anyone have a handy script that will change file associations? I’ve got some users that have Excel associated with their VM’s Excel instead of their host Excel and would like to easily change it for them.

Thanks
j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[talkingmoose]

The association is being made by your VM software, not the Finder. For
On 12/22/09 10:04 AM, "Nichols, Jared - 1160 - MITLL" <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
example, in Parallels 4.0 you can select Virtual Machine menu -->
Configure... --> Shared Applications and uncheck just SmartSelect or uncheck
"Share Windows applications with Mac OS X".

If you wanted to managed this with MCX then I believe the correct .plist
file would be ~/Library/Preferences/com.parallels.Parallels Desktop.plist.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

[jarednichols]

Thought about that, but disabling that setting in my VM does not change the
open with in the Finder. :(