On 11/03/2009, at 3:24 AM, Christiaan Hofman - [email protected] wrote: > > > 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 > >.
I replicated epicurus' testcase (one user with encrypted and one with unencrypted home directory) and although Skim and also the default Browser remained sticky over a few restarts, eventually the user with encrypted home directory had again Preview and Safari as standard applications, while the file type associations remained fine for the user with nonencrypted home directory. Thanks for the diagnosis everyone! I'll file a bug report with apple. Hopefully they'll react soon. Bjoern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
