When I did a little work in this area a few weeks ago, I found that just adding a UTI to a document type caused -[NSDocumentController defaultType] to return nil. I posted on this list but no one knew the answer. It might be relevant to your issue...

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2009/3/30/233397

Also, I found myself hopelessly confused because it seemed to me that the documentation and method signatures use the same word "type" indiscriminately to mean three different things:

   * Name
   * UTI
   * filename extension

(Now, just so I don't commit the same sin, I define these as the attributes you see in Xcode's Target Inspector > Properties tab, the first three columns, respectively.)

I ended up writing my own little method to get the opposite conversion of what you want. Maybe this will help you write a similar method to for your purposes...

/*!
@brief Returns the first file extension listed in Info.plist for a given document-type.Name of the current application, or nil if this does not exist.

@details In this context, document-type.Name refers to the attribute shown as the "Name" column in Xcode's Target inspector > Properties, and is also
 what is returned by, for example,
 [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController] defaultType].
*/
+ (NSString*)fileExtensionForDocumentType:(NSString*)docType ;


+ (NSString*)fileExtensionForDocumentType:(NSString*)docType
{
NSArray* docTypeDics = [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:@"CFBundleDocumentTypes"] ;
    NSString* extension = nil ;
    for (NSDictionary* docDic in docTypeDics) {
NSString* aDocType = [docDic objectForKey:@"CFBundleTypeName"] ;
        if ([aDocType isEqualToString:docType]) {
NSArray* extensions = [docDic objectForKey:@"CFBundleTypeExtensions"] ;
            if ([extensions count] > 0) {
                extension = [extensions objectAtIndex:0] ;
            }

            break ;
        }
    }

    return extension ;
}

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