> On Mar 2, 2020, at 2:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That is weird, I have no idea what is going on. It should not matter whether > an app is in Applications, I see them even when they are in a temporary build > location. Also the default app should nit be reset when the LS database is > reset. There really seems to be something wrong with launch services on that > system. Perhaps reinstalling Skim may help? > > Christiaan
Reinstalling Skim helped indeed. I threw my existing 1.5.6 away from /Volumes/Home/Applications/ and downloaded a new one into /Applications. After that, updating the LS database *no longer* resets all pdfs to open with Preview.app, and BibDesk is (mostly) snazzy again. Still bizarre: 1) Other apps still tend to lose their icon in the LS update: <http://www.klacto.net/LSreset.png <http://www.klacto.net/LSreset.png>>; <http://www.klacto.net/Applications.png <http://www.klacto.net/Applications.png>> seems to veeeery slowly populate over time (hours). 2) BibDesk still slows down to molasses if I go near (e.g. open Get Info window for) records whose associated file is .djvu; see: <http://www.klacto.net/Sample.djvu.txt <http://www.klacto.net/Sample.djvu.txt>>; so should I now download a new DjView.app into /Applications ? :-) Any ideas on how else to investigate would be great, but I also understand my machine may be hosed worse than I thought(*). Francois -------- (*) Long story short, it has 3 partitions “OSX”, “Home” and “Empty” of which OSX had Yosemite and Empty has the recently installed & problematic High Sierra. I traditionally keep all non-factory stuff (user dir, own apps, /usr/local) in Home, and never had problems doing that. But the High Sierra install was prompted by crashes which could be hardware after all -- can a dying SSD have such effects?
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