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On OS X, how do you change a file's "Kind"?

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Mar 15, 202635509 views
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On OS X I'd like to change the "Kind" label associated with files. Many of my files are showing up as "Plain Text File" when they are really javascript, php, css, and other file types. I don't have a problem getting them to open with the application I want, it's easy to do - there are lots of threa…

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The file kind is usually set by the application that handles that file type in Launch Services. For most of them, this is the application opening a file type by default, in your case, Coda. Applications specify file types in their file. You can see …

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