Wednesday, August 29, 2007

"Always Open With" From the Contextual Menu



One little shortcut I use to force a file to always open in a particular application is to right-click (or control-click) and then hold down the option key. The menu will change from "Open With" to "Always Open With" so that whatever application you choose will become the default application, but only for that file. It would be nice if you could change all the files of that type to open in that application but you can't, unless you "Get Info" and select "Change All."

Another interesting thing is that when you hold down the option key "Get Info" changes to "Show Inspector." It does the same thing, but perhaps there are file types that will have different behavior.

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