FileTyper 5.x

Author:

Daniel Azuma

Type:

Applications

Category: Utilities

Shared by: MR

On: 2014-04-14 23:09:07

Updated by: that-ben

On: 2019-04-16 17:52:08

Other contributors: eep

Rating: 10.00 Clarus

out of 10 (1 vote)

Rate it:

1996

What is FileTyper 5.x?

Filestyper allows you to change the Type, Creator, Created/Modified Date and Time as well as system flags e.g. Locked, isAlias, hasCustomIcon etc.

Classic Macintosh files have a Filetype (File) and Creator Signature(Creator). These are 4 characters each and may contain alphanumerics and some special characters. Together they identify a file so that an application knows if it can open it and if so, exactly what kind of file it should expect.

Examples:

A file that is a Macintosh application (executable) will have a Type : AAPL. The author will have created a Creator signature which could be something like Bk04.

A file that is meant to be opened by a normal Macintosh application (not executed itself) will have a Filetype that corresponds to the Creator of the application. If Creator "Bk04" has an application that can read and save files, those files may have a Type Bk04.

Download FileTyper 5.x for Mac

filetyper_5.0.1.sit (474.4 KiB / 485.79 KB)
System 6.x - Mac OS 9 / compressed w/ Stuffit