> 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?  
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