.webloc file problems

[MotionMan]

How do you open .webloc files in Windows or, even better, convert .webloc files to .url's?

MoitonMan

 

[MotionMan]

No thoughts?

MotionMan

 

[TheStu]

What is a .webloc file?

 

[TheStu]

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040728185233128

 

[MotionMan]

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040728185233128

I do not know how to use Applescript like that.

Is there a MacNoob way of doing it?

MotionMan

 

[TheStu]

Well, if you can send me a sample .webloc file, I can see if I can't put together the script for you. Back in school I played with AppleScript on occasion, nothing huge, but a little, at one point I took 2 separate scripts, one that would detect my cell phone's bluetooth and automatically sync it, and another that would lock my computer just by running it, made it so that when my cell was near it would sync, when my cell was far (out of range) it would lock the laptop.

So, stuart.hollisREMOVETHISIFYOUWANTTOEMAILME@gmail.com and ill see if I can convert it.

 

[TheStu]

Double Post

 

[TheStu]

Triple Post

 

[TheStu]

Quintuple Post

On an unrelated note, anyone else having forum posting issues from Safari 4 in OS X Leopard?

 

[TheStu]

Quadruple Post

 

[MotionMan]

Well, if you can send me a sample .webloc file, I can see if I can't put together the script for you. Back in school I played with AppleScript on occasion, nothing huge, but a little, at one point I took 2 separate scripts, one that would detect my cell phone's bluetooth and automatically sync it, and another that would lock my computer just by running it, made it so that when my cell was near it would sync, when my cell was far (out of range) it would lock the laptop.

So, stuart.hollisREMOVETHISIFYOUWANTTOEMAILME@gmail.com and ill see if I can convert it.

Thanks. No need to send you anything. Just go to any website in Safari and drag the url to the desktop - that is a .webloc file.

MotionMan

 

[TheStu]

This will be tedious, but...

Add .TXT to the end of each webloc. Open in Text Editor, all will be revealed.

 

[MotionMan]

Web Location Converter

Worked like charm (Check the caveat re: Snow Leopard).

MotionMan

 

[speg]

Looks like it's just XML.