I know there is a plist or something in the System that contains these
options. Have tried in vain to locate it. Anyone knows which file it is
so I can reduce the list to show only the options that are meaningful
to me?
Thanks in advance for any hint.
I have asked the same question a few months ago, but did not see a
reply. Sorry.
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> Clicking with the "ctrl" key offers a list of applications to open a
> given file type, presumably according to its extension. With picture
> files, you get an incredibly long list including totally useless
> options courtesy Adobe, such as "constrain to 64 pixels.exe" or
> "makebutton.exe" whilst I would like to get only the main options, i.e.
> GraphicConverter, Photoshop and few others.
>
> I know there is a plist or something in the System that contains these
> options. Have tried in vain to locate it. Anyone knows which file it is
> so I can reduce the list to show only the options that are meaningful
> to me?
>
> Thanks in advance for any hint.
>
> I have asked the same question a few months ago, but did not see a
> reply. Sorry.
It might be worth trying Zingg, which is more configurable.
Should be able to find it on www.macupdate.com.
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> Clicking with the "ctrl" key offers a list of applications to open a given
> file type, presumably according to its extension. With picture files, you get
> an incredibly long list including totally useless options courtesy Adobe,
> such as "constrain to 64 pixels.exe" or "makebutton.exe" whilst I would like
> to get only the main options, i.e. GraphicConverter, Photoshop and few
others.
>
> I know there is a plist or something in the System that contains these
> options. Have tried in vain to locate it. Anyone knows which file it is so I
> can reduce the list to show only the options that are meaningful to me?
a) control-click on the file icon
b) select Get Info
c) look for Open With
d select an application from the drop down list
After that, all files of the same kind will have that application as the
preferred opener.
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Thanks, an answer to a question that he didn't ask. Now can you answer
his question? I need a refresher for the same issue.
Greg
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> François de Dardel <dard...@noos.fr> wrote:
>
>> Clicking with the "ctrl" key offers a list of applications to open a
>> given file type, presumably according to its extension. With picture
>> files, you get an incredibly long list including totally useless
>> options courtesy Adobe, such as "constrain to 64 pixels.exe" or
>> "makebutton.exe" whilst I would like to get only the main options, i.e.
>> GraphicConverter, Photoshop and few others.
>>
>> I know there is a plist or something in the System that contains these
>> options. Have tried in vain to locate it. Anyone knows which file it is
>> so I can reduce the list to show only the options that are meaningful
>> to me?
>
> It might be worth trying Zingg, which is more configurable.
Thanks, I have tried Zingg, but I still would prefer to edit the "normal" list.
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> TaliesinSoft wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:23:07 -0500, François de Dardel wrote
>> (in article <44c3b07a$0$25663$79c1...@nan-newsreader-05.noos.net>):
>>
>>
>>> Clicking with the "ctrl" key offers a list of applications to open a given
>>> file type, presumably according to its extension. With picture files, you
>>> get
>>
>>
>>> an incredibly long list including totally useless options courtesy Adobe,
>>> such as "constrain to 64 pixels.exe" or "makebutton.exe" whilst I would
>>> like
>>> to get only the main options, i.e. GraphicConverter, Photoshop and few
>>
>> others.
>>
>>> I know there is a plist or something in the System that contains these
>>> options. Have tried in vain to locate it. Anyone knows which file it is so
>>> I
>>> can reduce the list to show only the options that are meaningful to me?
>>
>>
>> a) control-click on the file icon
>>
>> b) select Get Info
>>
>> c) look for Open With
>>
>> d select an application from the drop down list
>>
>> After that, all files of the same kind will have that application as the
>> preferred opener.
>>
>
> Thanks, an answer to a question that he didn't ask. Now can you answer
> his question? I need a refresher for the same issue.
But it was such a nice answer! :-)
I misread the question (even though I quoted it, making things even worse)
and thought that what was being asked was how to change the default
application that opens a particular kind of file.
As for how to edit the list, I haven't the foggiest.
> Clicking with the "ctrl" key offers a list of applications to open a
> given file type, presumably according to its extension. With picture
> files, you get an incredibly long list including totally useless
> options courtesy Adobe, such as "constrain to 64 pixels.exe" or
> "makebutton.exe" whilst I would like to get only the main options,
> i.e. GraphicConverter, Photoshop and few others.
>
> I know there is a plist or something in the System that contains these
> options. Have tried in vain to locate it. Anyone knows which file it
> is so I can reduce the list to show only the options that are
> meaningful to me?
>
I think I can tell you where the list comes from, and how it can be
changed. I don't know if this would be the best way to do it, or
even if it works. Of course you wouldn't want to change any files
without first making at copy, _not_an_alias_, so you can copy it back
if things go bad. With that precaution, it should be safe.
Have the developer package installed, so you can conveniently inspect
and change a plist.
Go to the app in finder, control-click and select "view package
contents". You will get a new finder window, with a single folder
called "contents". Inside that there will be a file called
"info.plist". Double click on that to open it - it will open in
Property List Editor.app. Click on the arrow to expand "root",
and then "CFBundleDocumentTypes". You will get a series of numbers,
and when you expand one of those one variable will be
"CFBundleTypeExtensions". Clicking on that will give a series of
numbered strings, giving extensions which the app wants OS X think it
can open. If you delete one of these (click on it to select it,
then click the delete button at the top) and save the file,
then OS X should leave it off the "Open With" list.
I don't know how quickly the change should come up.
As I said, this is unverified. However it should be safe if you
previously saved a copy of the file.
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