I would put a copy of Texedit elsewhere, trash the one in Applications, and then copy it back to Applications. It has worked for me in the past.
Also, check whether the app file name is Texedit.app, or not. Cesar Alsina On Jun 15, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote: > Mac Mini, OSX 10.5.8 > Since today, I observe a strange behaviour of ALL of the .txt or .rtf file: > when doubleclicking (or pressing cmd-O in Finder, Textedit does not activate, > if it is not already opened. > > I did all the usual repair and maintenance work (rebuilding launch, whatis, > locate, prebindings), deleted all caches, temp files and the relevant pref > file (well, all the stuff, Xupport, Onyx and MainMenu offers), checked access > rights and so on....with no result. > > I changed the default app to Beans: Beans opens correctly any file. I changed > back to TextEdit: nothing! > > To be clear: that only happens when Textedit is not already running. When it > is running, all things behave normal. > > Any hints? > Rudolf _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
