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I cannot open files(especially PDF files) after update ventura 13.2.1 to 13.3

I updated Ventura OS to newest ver. in yesterday.

After updating, I cannot open files by double-click.


Quicklook by click spacebar works normally, but when I try to open file by click, I can see executing of Apps(e.g. Powerpoint, Preview, Excel...).


For solve this problem I open files after change their name as a walk-around solution.

This symptom getting worse and worse.


How can I fix this?


Posted on Mar 29, 2023 4:19 AM

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Posted on Mar 31, 2023 2:06 AM

Select the file in Finder that you cannot open, press Enter to enter edit mode, and then immediately press Enter again to exit edit mode. Will this open the file? In some cases, you may need to do the same with the full path of the file.

The purpose of this sequence of operations is to convert NFC characters to NFD (editing a file name in Finder converts it to NFD). Apparently, Ventura 13.3 does not equate the filename passed as NFC with the NFD and loses sight of it when the application is launched with the open command or a double-click from Finder.

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Aug 7, 2023 1:51 PM in response to tdbbs

Are you sure you're having the same root problem most of the discussion here is about? Which is:


Files created with non-Latin characters in the filename encoded in an unusual way by the software that generated the file won't open when double-clicked. If you edit the file name at all in the Finder (which re-encodes in the more common way) it will open normally. Files with only basic Latin characters also open fine regardless, and opening via an Open file dialogue also works, only Finder double-clicking or dragging and dropping onto a Dock icon fail.


On my M1 Max MPB 13.5 is fine, and that problem has not returned, either with old or newly-created files. It was 100% replicable with the tools I use prior to the fix, so if the same problem existed I'd be able to replicate it. Could be that it's affecting Intel systems differently or there's some other factor, of course.

Feb 26, 2024 1:36 PM in response to Youngkim98

I continue to have this issue (most noticeable with PDFs and Office documents, though that's also the majority of my work) in Sonoma 14.3.1. It started on a different computer (MB Pro 15", intel) in Ventura.


When I double-click on some documents, the app will open but not the file itself. If I double-click on the file again, it opens. I have not been able to discern a pattern, but will start to keep an eye on file names and whether or not they were downloaded files (the latter being unlikely as I don't download many files). I have never used characters with umlauts or similar accents, though do use underscores and hyphens.


Any help/suggestions appreciated.


Thanks!

I cannot open files(especially PDF files) after update ventura 13.2.1 to 13.3

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