Changing Default Application in Mac OS X
by David Sudjiman ~ August 3rd, 2007. Filed under: Mac.What happened if you just downloading your favorite application and want to change the default application to open particular file? For example, I just downloaded Smultron, a text editor, to replace Mac OS X default text editor application, TextEdit.
I thought this can be done easily by right click the file that I want to open, and change the default application. Just like in Windows :-). But, apparently that not the way it should be!
Uncle Google helps me lot by pointing to several applications that can change this default application preference but then I thought why is this thing would take so much efforts just to change the default application preference.
Playing around a bit, I finally found the way to change the default application preference.
Just right click the file that you want to open and choose Get Info. In the Open with:, change the default application you want and click Change All…. You will be questioned whether you are sure on changing this default application preference. Too easy! click Continue will solve the problem.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Thank you! You just remedied a longtime annoyance of mine. Always nice to fix something without having to download a separate application.
Death to Preview!
July 5th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Thanks for posting this! I also googled to find out how to change default applications, and found a bunch of apps that would change default apps for me, but I didn’t want to download something else just to do this… so this is very helpful! I wish I knew how to make this appear higher in the Google Search Results.