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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1935461" data-attributes="member: 396914">It helps. As for your question, the answer is basically no. The &quot;extent&quot; (and what JimmySB called the &quot;suffix&quot; is the &quot;pst&quot; in the name. What Finder does is associate an extent with an app by default, but you can assign a different app if you want, as I told you how to do. My warning was that if you have multiple files ending in &quot;.pst&quot; and want to have ALL of them the same, you have to be careful because if you double click on a file with &quot;.pst&quot; as the extent it will open with the default app. That may be OK if you&nbsp; want Outlook and double click an Outlook pst file, but can cause problems if you want to open a Logic Pro file and double click but it opens in Outlook. Or the opposite, you want to open a pst in Outlook, but it's set, as your image shows, for Logic Pro. But you can override the system default &quot;Open with&quot; setting per file, so it's up to you whether you want the default to be Outlook or Logic Pro. The &quot;Kind' is Finder's attempt to show the current default for that file. It's mostly accurate, but it can get lost sometimes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1935461, member: 396914"] It helps. As for your question, the answer is basically no. The "extent" (and what JimmySB called the "suffix" is the "pst" in the name. What Finder does is associate an extent with an app by default, but you can assign a different app if you want, as I told you how to do. My warning was that if you have multiple files ending in ".pst" and want to have ALL of them the same, you have to be careful because if you double click on a file with ".pst" as the extent it will open with the default app. That may be OK if you want Outlook and double click an Outlook pst file, but can cause problems if you want to open a Logic Pro file and double click but it opens in Outlook. Or the opposite, you want to open a pst in Outlook, but it's set, as your image shows, for Logic Pro. But you can override the system default "Open with" setting per file, so it's up to you whether you want the default to be Outlook or Logic Pro. The "Kind' is Finder's attempt to show the current default for that file. It's mostly accurate, but it can get lost sometimes. [/QUOTE]

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