Re: reset file associations

Entity stewacide@xxxxxxxxxxx spoke thus:

> So nobody knows how OSX stores file association preferences?
For what it's worth, I also have no end of problems with MS Office behaving
nicely.

Apple has Launch Services, there is a preferences file at:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist

If you delete this file and relogin it should set all files to default, but
this doesn't mean it will solve your problem.


You can dump file associations in Terminal (note that the following is all
one line):
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchSe
rvices.framework/Support/lsregister -dump

You can view the manpage for the lsregister command:
http://osxfaq.com/tips/unix-tricks/week100/wednesday.ws

There is a Terminal command to scan your disk and reset all launch apps but
I forget the command.

There are utilities for this sort of thing, Applejack may be one.

Be sure to repair Permissions before doing anything else.

-- Gnarlie's Applescript page:
http://Gnarlodious.com/Apple/AppleScript/

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