[PD] "open with" on os x

marius schebella marius.schebella at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 23:01:41 CET 2007


Yes, that is true, but it was the only possibility to get rid of the 
double entries. at least the only one that I found.
marius.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> Watch out, I am pretty sure that it deletes all your associations as 
> well, and will prompt you again with the "this App hasn't been run 
> before, run it?" dialog.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Oct 31, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Dafydd Hughes wrote:
> 
>> boy. i'm gonna bookmark this one!
>>
>> On 31-Oct-07, at 12:39 PM, marius schebella wrote:
>>
>>> I finally found the solution to this annoying problem.
>>> you have to rebuild the launch service database (see 
>>> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486 )
>>> I ran the following command, and that fixed it.
>>>
>>> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister 
>>> -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
>>>
>>> marius.
>>>
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> This is a bug I run into a lot.  Basically, if you have a lot of 
>>>> versions of Pd, it confused the assocations system.  Try removing 
>>>> random ones.  I have found that I have to clean out the associations 
>>>> system from time to time because I am always trying many different 
>>>> versions.
>>>> I forgot how to do it now... I think it's done by deleting some file 
>>>> in /Library/Caches and rebooting.
>>>> .hc
>>>> On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:45 AM, marius schebella wrote:
>>>>> yes, that should do it, but not here. when I select Pd-extended it
>>>>> immediately get reset. there must be some hidden mechanism that always
>>>>> choses the newer version or a file where that is stored...
>>>>> I have no clue what I have to search for to get this fixed.
>>>>> marius.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dafydd Hughes wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Marius
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This worked for me:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Finder, Get Info on any Pd file, Open With -> choose your version
>>>>>> -> Change All...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope this helps
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>> dafydd
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/2/07, marius schebella <marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> I have two versions of pd-extended on my mac: pd-extended (0.39) and
>>>>>>> pd-0.40.3-extended. I want all pd files to be opened with 0.39 by 
>>>>>>> default.
>>>>>>> Instead os x tries to open all Pd files with a version (0.40.3) 
>>>>>>> which I
>>>>>>> deleted some time ago.
>>>>>>> oh, how I hate stupid MACOS X!
>>>>>>> anyway, how can I change that. I tried to use applications like 
>>>>>>> xray,
>>>>>>> but whenever I change the settings to the older version it gets
>>>>>>> overwritten by that fascist OS that thinks it is cleverer than me.
>>>>>>> marius.
>>>>>>>
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