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On the Mac I've got OS X 10.10 Yosemite and when I right-click and open-with a different program (and have to manually allow programs that aren't suggested) OS X immediately ignores me and keeps opening wav/aif files in iTunes instead of the other program.
How do I force Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite to honor custom file associations?
John
Posted 2016-01-19T04:38:57.923
Reputation: 1 490
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Doing a right-click "Open With" does not make any persistent change to the file associations (actually, it's called the Launch Services settings in OS X).
What you need to fo is "Get Info" on the file (either from the right-click context menu, or by selecting the file and choosing File > Get Info from the menu bar), changing the setting in the "Open with" section of the Info window, and then clicking "Change All" below that.
Gordon Davisson
Posted 2016-01-19T04:38:57.923
Reputation: 28 538
1Interestingly, right click + ⌥Option and selecting "Always Open With" also only works for one file. – rcoup – 2017-07-03T09:13:46.173
1Are you saying that ‘‘open with’’ doesn’t work *at all,* and that files are always opened with the hard-coded default program, or are you saying that, when you do ‘‘open with’’, the system doesn’t remember your selection and goes back to using the default program next time you do an “Open”? – Scott – 2018-03-29T04:32:31.453