2 apps...1 new, 1 old. How to force docs to open in old app...

I don't have quark (only a few gluons) but in general, you can force a file to open with a particular application by specifying the absolute path to its unix executable.


/Applications/Browsers/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari filename.html


will open filename.html with the version of Safari I have in /Applications/Browsers.

Foo.app/Contents/MacOS/Foo

is usually how it looks, but there may be some variants.

I'm not familiar with Quark, but I think how it generally works is that when an application is selected in "Open with" and set to be the default for a given kind of file, it is the ' CFBundleIdentifier' that is recorded. If more than one application has the same ' CFBundleIdentifier', then the document is opened with the application with the matching ' CFBundleIdentifier' that has the highest ' CFBundleVersion' and I don't know if that aspect can be changed.

If it is an application that tolerates some tinkering (Quark might not be), then it might be possible either to change the test version's ' CFBundleIdentifier', or modifying its ' CFBundleVersion' lower or higher depending on how you want it to behave...

you should be able to modify the bundle identifier for quark 7 so that docs still open in 6.5 by default.

details of how the finder deals with it are here, among other places on developer.apple.com:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCTutorial/configuri ngcurrency_converter/chapter_6_section2.html

How exactly did you modify it?
We have the same problem here.
Thanks

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