Hi Stief

I'm one of the chicken-hearted running OS9.2 in the classic mode on OS10.1.2 — I know I should bite the bullet and go for broke on OSX but I have years of "stuff" I carry forward on ancient kit that all runs happily in classic and I don't want to risk major file transfers unless I have to (foolish sentimentality from the almost brain dead!).

There is no option in my preferences to adjust the file suffixes (which may be why I had the problem in the first place). Anyway, for all that the solution is very tedious, it will keep me off street corners.

All we have to do now is to find a way of speeding the damn thing up when the weekend comes and increased data traffic slows transfers to zero.

Thanks for all your time and interest.

David

If you are booted up in classic, you should be able to set the doubleclick app. for mp3's. Go to the Control Panel "File Exchange," scroll down the list to select ".mp3," then hit the "change" button to choose the app you want. You have to set OS9 as your startup disk for this to work.

But since you are probably booted up in OSX, here's what Apple says in http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106171

Steps for Mac OS X 10.1 and later

1. Click the document's icon in the Finder to select it.
2. Choose Show Info from the File menu.
3. Choose "Open with application" from the upper pop-up menu in the Info window.
4. Choose the desired application from the lower pop-up menu in the Info window. You may choose Other to select an application not on the list.
5. If you wish to open all documents of this type with the selected application, click Change All.

There's also an app that you can use, like FileType http://www.frederikseiffert.de/filetype/

Well, hope these guesses help. Let me know what works, and keep smiling that you've the time to play with this stuff, and the interest to bother.

Hi again ...
... and thanx for keeping us posted. I'm glad you got to the bottom of your problem.

If I've learned anything over all the years, it's that one problem ALWAYS leads to another - re: your having to add the suffix to all those file names.

I've not done it, but one suggestion to solve that one is to write a little AppleScript script which will do it for you. You may even find a script already written somewhere by trolling the internet.

Regards

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(Later, on edit)

Okay, so I'm missing some gray matter, too!

I just remembered that an AppleScript that will do exactly what you want comes w/the AppleScript package supplied w/your computer (or, at least it did w/mine). Look for the script "Add Prefix/Suffix to Files".