To change the application for a single file, it's very similar to
the windows situation. Right-click on the file and in the popup
menu select the application from the Open With… menu item.
Or, open the application and drop the file icon onto the
application icon in the dock.
To permanently change the application that opens all files of
a given type, select a file of that type and Get Info on it (using
the File menu or command-I or by right-clicking on it). Expand
the Open With: section of the Info window if it is not already
expanded (click on the right-pointing triangle), select the
application you want to use from the menu there, then use
the Change All… button.
If you do this to use Preview to open PDFs instead of Acrobat
Reader, PDFs will open much more quickly, and as a recent
thread pointed out, you can do copy/paste from some PDFs
with Preview but not with Reader.
On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:00 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
wrote:
Subject: Re: Opening jpeg files
I'm having the same problem with OS X since the update, except that
they are pc docs now opening in textedit rather than wp. Can you
help? With thanks in advance.
--- On Tue, 2/3/09, Tony B <ton...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Tony B <ton...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Opening jpeg files
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:30 PM
Locate the file in an Explorer window ("My
Computer"), right-click it
and select "Open with", and be sure to select the
checkbox to always
open with the app you choose.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Ralph
<rs9...@gmail.com> wrote:
Somehow, my WinXP has lost its pointer to which
program is supposed to
open jpeg files - which is a pain because I don't
know what I was
using. Any suggestions?
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