I was actually screwing with a similar problem the other day. I had a bunch of images on my hard drive that would launch Graphic Converter when they were clicked on. I love GraphicConverter -- it's a great graphics utility for the Mac -- but when I just want to view images, I prefer to use JpegView.
The first thing I tried was Macintosh Easy Open. I scrolled down to the entry for JPG files and changed the default application from GraphicConverter to JPEGView. That didn't work. I suppose it would have worked if I had been dealing with images that didn't have their creator set to GraphicConverter, but these images had their creator set to GraphicConverter. You know Mac OS! The first application it's going to try to launch a file in, is the application that it thinks created the file.
Next I tried changing the creator for the image files. I just changed the four charcter creator from GraphicConverter to JVWR, which is the creator that specifies JPEGView. That did it. Now Mac OS launches JPEGView instead of GraphicConverter whenever I click on one of those image files.
I used Norton Utilities Disk Editor to change the creator on my files, but you can use ResEdit or any of a whole range of utilities that will get the job done for you. Another way to do it, is to manually open the file in Word 98 and resave the file with Word 98. That will change the creator so that Mac OS will always try to open that document with Word 98 first.
The first thing I tried was Macintosh Easy Open. I scrolled down to the entry for JPG files and changed the default application from GraphicConverter to JPEGView. That didn't work. I suppose it would have worked if I had been dealing with images that didn't have their creator set to GraphicConverter, but these images had their creator set to GraphicConverter. You know Mac OS! The first application it's going to try to launch a file in, is the application that it thinks created the file.
Next I tried changing the creator for the image files. I just changed the four charcter creator from GraphicConverter to JVWR, which is the creator that specifies JPEGView. That did it. Now Mac OS launches JPEGView instead of GraphicConverter whenever I click on one of those image files.
I used Norton Utilities Disk Editor to change the creator on my files, but you can use ResEdit or any of a whole range of utilities that will get the job done for you. Another way to do it, is to manually open the file in Word 98 and resave the file with Word 98. That will change the creator so that Mac OS will always try to open that document with Word 98 first.