On 10 Mar 2009, at 4:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> I continue to have the following problem and can't figure out what is >> causing it: >> >> When I change the default application to view PDF files to Skim (File >> Info -> Open with ... / Change all), Skim becomes the default viewer >> for PDFs for the current session. After logging out and back in, the >> default Application has been reset to Preview.app. Each time I login, >> I have to redo these steps. And that pretty much annoys me. > > I have *precisely* the same problem on 10.5.6. I too have FileVault > enabled. I feel reasonably confident that it's the FileVault that's > part of the problem. I made an unencrypted test-user, and my app > associations appear to stick there through restarts and logouts.
Did this happen on earlier versions? > I note that the reversion to Preview as default viewer is very > erratic. Sometimes my setting of Skim as the default survives > logouts and logins, and sometimes it doesn't. It even occasionally > survives a restart. > > Deleting all the launch services caches helps, but only for the > first restart after the deletion. > > One thing that makes me wonder whether this is *purely* an Apple > problem: other app associations that I've made stick without > problems. For instance, I wanted MacVim to always open .tex files, > and that has never failed. On the other hand, Skim isn't the only > app whose association isn't sticky. For instance, I've also told > the system to open .plist files with MacVim, but in that case the > association is nonsticky in precisely the same way that Skim's > isn't. In my experience, the following filetype extensions are > chronically unsticky: pdf, rtf, doc, plist. The following, on the > other hand, are sticky as they should be: tex, bib, dtx, dvi (and > other LaTeX-related ones in general), xls, txt, html, bz2, tbz, gz, > tar, tgz, sit. I've never tried changing the defaults for jpg, gif, > png (graphics stuff) or log, ps, rtfd, docx, ppt. > > - epicurus Skim does absolutely nothing that could possibly interfere with this. I think what you see has more to do with the fact that the system by default knows about some types and not about others (and that corresponds exactly to the types you mention). I'm pretty confident it's a FileVault/LanchServices system bug. So nothing anyone can do, I think. I recommend to tell Apple at http://bugreport.apple.com (you need a, free, Apple login). Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
