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From: stewacide on 15 Sep 2005 21:27 I know how to CHANGE the program assigned to open a file type (using the file inspector), but how do I RESET file type associations in OSX? I.e. if a program for some reason assigns itself to a file type improperly, how do I un-assign the file type? The Finder only wants to let me change the program, not choose no program at all. MS Office and VLC in particular seem to have assigned themselves all sorts of generic file types (.bundle, .dat, etc.) that shouldn't be assigned to any program in particular. Messes up all my pretty icons ;) Thanx.
From: briangoogle on 16 Sep 2005 12:18 Right click on the file and you'll see "Open With", with a list of apps; hold down the Option key and that becomes "Always Open With". Select the app you want to re-assign to the file and it should change all files with the same extension. Not sure if this answers your question...
From: google on 16 Sep 2005 14:43 Hi, maybe a clue here?, this happened to me yesterday when "hexeditor" managed to associate itself with Route66.prm map files on my 10.4.2. I copied the (luckily few) affected files to a DOS formatted USB key and was able to delete the associated file . e.g. the file "alpenlaender.prm" had an associated (hidden) file ".alpenlaender.prm" , one use for DOS!! I'm sure that some helpful wizard will have a association = "<none>" OS X script available somewhere, but I haven't found it yet! stewacide(a)hotmail.com ha scritto: > I know how to CHANGE the program assigned to open a file type (using > the file inspector), but how do I RESET file type associations in OSX? > >
From: Barry Margolin on 16 Sep 2005 22:37 In article <1126887538.312179.185740(a)g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, briangoogle(a)mailinator.com wrote: > Right click on the file and you'll see "Open With", with a list of > apps; hold down the Option key and that becomes "Always Open With". > Select the app you want to re-assign to the file and it should change > all files with the same extension. > > Not sure if this answers your question... No, because "None" is not one of the choices in the menu. I suppose it could be done by installing some random application, changing the associations to that app, and then uninstalling the app. -- Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
From: stewacide on 16 Sep 2005 23:10
I think I'll give the associating-with-app-then-deleteing-app thing a try. Still, could anyone shed some light as to how OSX handles file associations? Windows has a central-depository of associations in the File Explorer preferences that is pretty handy. I couldn't find anything in any config' files on OSX, let alone any sort of GUI configuration. |