On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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 > > Here's a confirmation of the bug, and a workaround: < http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008031217120475>. Christiaan
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