Comments on: Quick Tip: Force Files to Open with Certain Programs

By: Jenny Kortina

Jenny Kortina — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:30:58 +0000

@David: My bad…didn’t read it correctly. Thanks for the tip!

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:29:22 +0000

@Jenny: This method is different as it saves you the step of choosing “Other” if the program is shown in the drop-down menu. You do not need to open a dialog box at all this way.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:00:09 +0000

I’ve now settled with NicePlayer for watching .flv files.

Thanks for all your suggestions

By: Jenny Kortina

Jenny Kortina — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:55:45 +0000

@David: That’s the first method described…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:43:53 +0000

@Peter
Also tried out Open-With Manager, no success.

@Tempura
No, I don’t have any encryption enabled.

By: Tempura

Tempura — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:46:32 +0000

Do you encrypt your home-dir with filevault? If’ve heard that this could break the file-settings after a reboot.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:41:47 +0000

Open-With Manager ( free – from the wonderful folks who gave us Service Scrubber ) ;

http://www.manytricks.com/openwithmanager/

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:25:48 +0000

An easier variation of the first method is to right click on the file and then hold down the Option key. Option-clicking changes “Open With” to “Always Open With.”

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:43:17 +0000

Ok, will try this out. Thanks

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:41:16 +0000

Sorry, I’m out of ideas. The only think I can think of would be to use RCDefaults to force it to use another player (FLV player or VLC), reboot, then force it back to Quicktime.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:28:49 +0000

Yes, when I drag the .flv file on QuickTime Player it plays flawlessly but I can’t assign it to be the standard player.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:17:51 +0000

@patrick: And you have perian installed?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:06:43 +0000

@Erik
Unfortunately not.

I’ve already assigned “flv” and “video/x-flv” to QuickTime Player but it still doesn’t work.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:38:27 +0000

I use the Preference Pane app RCDefaultApp to do this:
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/

Maybe it will solve you problem, Patrick.

By: Jenny Kortina

Jenny Kortina — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:04:26 +0000

Unfortunately, these are the only two methods I know of. Anyone else know?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:43:24 +0000

I tried to do this for .flv files so that they always open with QuickTime Player but unfortunately it doesn’t work. It always reverts to any of the other Video Players I’ve installed.

Do you know what could possible be wrong with my setup?

Thanks in advance

By: Hisham

Hisham — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:15:04 +0000

Thank you for the post. I usually use the last option, it works for a short period of time then it will return to its previous default program. For example, I have pages and OpenOffice installed. If I change the .doc documents to open with pages, it will do that for a short time then it will go back to opening with OpenOffice. Not only for .doc but for all kinds of documents.