web location converter and snow leopard
the problem
Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) broke one of the features of Web Location Converter. The problem occurs if you drag a web location (.webloc) file on to the icon for Web Location Converter. Normally this would allow you to convert the file to another format. In Snow Leopard, Web Location Converter appears to quit and nothing happens.details
When you drag a file on to Web Location Converter, the system is supposed to open our application and give us information about each file. Then we convert the files.
Snow Leopard does not do that. Instead, Snow Leopard opens and immediately quits Web Location Converter, before we can execute any code. Then it opens your web browser and goes to the URL embedded in the webloc file. When dragging multiple webloc files, Snow Leopard may also return a -600 error.
workaround
Instead of using drag-and-drop, you can double-click Web Location Converter, then select your webloc files from inside the application. You can select multiple files by holding down the Command ⌘ key.
will this bug be fixed?
We don't know. This bug was reported to Apple shortly after Snow Leopard's release. Nine months later, Apple still had not fixed the bug. If the bug is fixed in some future release of Mac OS X, the drag-and-drop feature should "just work" again.