timski2006 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 OMG i so can't believe i just did that! ok then here's the thing i was trying to open an .kext and edit it as you do.... but i double clicked it and then a msg came up asking me to associate the kext files with text edit and foolishly i clicked it to say yes! then all me nice ikkle white brick icons on the .kext disappeared OMG and they became folders with all bits in.... everything works a treat but ... is there a way to change it back? before you ask i never even did a back up 1st TSK TSK naughty boy slaps hand! any help really appreciated before i go down the path to reinstall NO!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Ok it has got to be something to do with setting default applications. Just cant find that preferance dialog in leopard. Ah found it its called RCDefaultApp download it and bobs your uncle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timski2006 Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 right then did that installed the RCDefault app and went to extensions and highlighted kext and took of the notepad association and click on to disable... icon is still a folder that i can open. am i doing that right? thanks for the fast reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 ya just try rebooting or open a terminal and type sudo killall Finder EDIT: just for the record kexts are just folders with a strange extension so the kernel knows to differenciate them from normal folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timski2006 Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 did that still got the folder with the following inside a folder called Contence> then info.plist 2 folders MACOS and Resources nothing has changed :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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