> On Mar 2, 2020, at 9:12 PM, FZiegler <fz.2...@klacto.net> wrote: > >> On Mar 2, 2020, at 2:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com >> <mailto: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).
The LS update process finishes quickly but seems to leave many mdworkers behind: <http://www.klacto.net/mdworkers.png <http://www.klacto.net/mdworkers.png>>. > 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? > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
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