[dougster]

Hi..Hope somebody might know why 90% of ~/Library/Preferences say Open with: OmniOutliner (default) and the other 10% + say Open with TextEdit when doing a Get Info on each .plist? I've never even used OmniOutliner. Or is this normal? Just seems odd since running OSX for just a year. Thanks for any help
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-doug
DP 1.25GHz G4 MDD 2GB 2x160HD 22"CD OSX.3.2

[d00d]

That's because OmniOutliner can open .plist files. This feature is even listed in OmniOutliner's help (Advanced Topics -> Importing from Other Applications).
This is probably due to their regular format (a subset of XML).

[dougster]

Hi d00d,
Thanks for the info. Had NO idea, after reading the Help menu, and your post, how 'powerful' that sucker is. These are the things I eat-up to learn about OSX, and others I presume. BTW..happened to stop by the Apple Store and peeked (played) w/ a few of their towers and all had OmniOutliner as (default) in their list of .plist files. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
-doug
DP 1.25GHz G4 MDD 2GB 2x160HD 22"CD OSX.3.2

[d00d]

Omnigroup's applications are wonderful. I'm a huge fan of OmniGraffle myself. Not sure why they'd have OmniOutliner as the default for .plist files. I think it only imports them and Apple's own Property List Editor (part of the Developer's tools) is much more suited to the task.