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?
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.
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.
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 hope that Apple fixes it soon.
Long time no see guys,
Finally, Apple solved this issue.
The answer is Ventura 13.4
You can escape from the 'double click' period right now by install 13.4 official ver.
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Your Solution works!!
But I got tons of documents in my Mac.
Yes, It's tragedy.
I need to make a bot for clicking double enter T-T
Of course, it is impractical to convert every file name. This is an obvious bug in 13.3 and let's hope it will be fixed in the near future :-)
Still same problem even your instruction
The problem also persists in the new version 13.3.1.
Thanks for the information, I'm still waiting to solved the bug before updating the operating system again.
I also had the same issue, unable to open the pdf file located in the google drive folder after upgrading to 13.3.
After I ran the disk utility and repaired the disk, I can open the file again.
After 13.3.1 (22E261) update my .txt, .jpg, .pdf files wont open and my .pmdx and .tmdx (FreeOffice) files are all empty.
Will Apple fix this bug?
[Inadvertent double-post, I don't think there's a way to delete a post here.]
Thank you for this additional information. It is the first time that I’ve seen this mention to HFS+ working correctly. Good to know!
Update: I tried creating a disk image with HFS+ format and I do not see the same as you: file names that fail to open from an APFS volume also fail to open for me with HFS+.
I cannot open files(especially PDF files) after update ventura 13.2.1 to 13.3
