LaserSoft Imaging

hi,

Running a Microtek 9800XL attached to a G4/400 via Firewire. Mac is running 10.3.3

In the past, when I installed Silverfast, and it looked for my copy of Photoshop, and I inadvertantly selected PS 6, Silverfast would save them as PS 6 files - that is, when you double-clicked them they opened in Photoshop. Now, when I installed the 6.1r1 update, the only option I have is Photoshop CS (even tho 6 is still on the machine). Selecting CS does put a plug-in in CS; however, the default file format for any scan created is the Mac OS Preview app, which means I have to right-click and tell the OS to open the file with Photoshop. Is there a setting to allow me to force Silverfast to make all scans open automatically in Photoshop without scanning directly to Photoshop? It's just a little niggling annoyance.

SilverFast does not save the files with application-specific information; so called META data. perhaps accidentally or perhaps due to the 10.3.3 update, your file extension mappings have been reset or changed.

for you, remapping the extension would be the best solution.

select any file saved by SilverFast. open the Get Info window. click on the Open With toggle, and click on the popup menu to select the application which should open the SilverFast files. if your preferred app is not listed, select Other from the popup menu and manually navigate to and select your preferred app. finally, click on the Change All button and confirm your action.

from now on, all of the SilverFast files will be opened automatically in the application you chose (until the extension mapping gets corrupted or reset again).

regards
Gregory

Gregory C wrote:SilverFast does not save the files with application-specific information; so called META data. perhaps accidentally or perhaps due to the 10.3.3 update, your file extension mappings have been reset or changed.

for you, remapping the extension would be the best solution.

select any file saved by SilverFast. open the Get Info window. click on the Open With toggle, and click on the popup menu to select the application which should open the SilverFast files. if your preferred app is not listed, select Other from the popup menu and manually navigate to and select your preferred app. finally, click on the Change All button and confirm your action.

from now on, all of the SilverFast files will be opened automatically in the application you chose (until the extension mapping gets corrupted or reset again).

regards
Gregory

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. Using my case as an example, when I tell it which to use Photoshop to open the file, that file gets remapped for Photoshop immediately. Then, when you click the change all button, the dialog, states "Are you sure you want to change all of your Adobe Photoshop CS documents to open with Adobe Photoshop CS?" So anything scanned afterward still has Preview metadata, and is not affected by the "Change all..." button.

scanned files shouldn't have meta data but assuming that they do for now, chose one of the scanned files and use the Open With procedure to change the mapping for that file. it should ask if you want to change the application for all files with that meta data. click ok and things should be as you want.

unless something else is going on in the process that we're not aware of.

might your mapping file be corrupt? there's one in the user's library folder. if you delete it, all mappings will be reset and you'll have to customise your mappings from scratch but it may be your only hope. I've had to reset my mappings twice since using OS X.

regards
Gregory