logoalt Hacker News

xoalast Monday at 7:11 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, at least in theory changing this is straight forward. Though:

>You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done.

I will note I have one Mac with one old user account where it will not remember this anymore across reboots (across macOS 15, plan to skip 26 and hope 27 is acceptable). I haven't had time to try to get into why, but it's occasionally irritating.


Replies

isametrylast Monday at 8:04 PM

I wonder if SwiftDefaultApps might yield different results compared to the Cmd+I menu? It's a crude-yet-still-working preference pane for setting default apps in System Settings, rather than using example files:

https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps