Comments on: Quick Tip: Force Files to Open with Certain Programs http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/ Mon, 28 May 2012 13:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jenny Kortina http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329058 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:30:58 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329058 @David: My bad…didn’t read it correctly. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: David http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329057 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:29:22 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329057 @Jenny: This method is different as it saves you the step of choosing “Other” if the program is shown in the drop-down menu. You do not need to open a dialog box at all this way.

]]> By: Patrick http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329056 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:00:09 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329056 I’ve now settled with NicePlayer for watching .flv files.

Thanks for all your suggestions

]]> By: Jenny Kortina http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329060 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:55:45 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329060 @David: That’s the first method described…

]]> By: Patrick http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329059 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:43:53 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329059 @Peter
Also tried out Open-With Manager, no success.

@Tempura
No, I don’t have any encryption enabled.

]]> By: Tempura http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329061 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:46:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329061 Do you encrypt your home-dir with filevault? If’ve heard that this could break the file-settings after a reboot.

]]> By: Peter http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329064 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:41:47 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329064 Open-With Manager ( free – from the wonderful folks who gave us Service Scrubber ) ;

http://www.manytricks.com/openwithmanager/

]]> By: David http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329063 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:25:48 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329063 An easier variation of the first method is to right click on the file and then hold down the Option key. Option-clicking changes “Open With” to “Always Open With.”

]]> By: Patrick http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329062 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:43:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329062 Ok, will try this out. Thanks

]]> By: Erik http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-force-files-to-open-with-certain-programs/#comment-329065 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:41:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3666#comment-329065 Sorry, I’m out of ideas. The only think I can think of would be to use RCDefaults to force it to use another player (FLV player or VLC), reboot, then force it back to Quicktime.

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