When I right click on a file and choose "Open With / Other", is there a way to make the Mac choose "All Applications" by default? I wouldn't be using "Open With / Other" unless I'm unable to open the file with a Recommended Application, so making me use the drop down menu to choose "All Applications" seems redundant?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14
ykt28403 wrote:
When I right click on a file and choose "Open With / Other", is there a way to make the Mac choose "All Applications" by default?
Nope
I wouldn't be using "Open With / Other" unless I'm unable to open the file with a Recommended Application, so making me use the drop down menu to choose "All Applications" seems redundant?
Not really. For one thing if you have to resort to "All Applications" it's likely whatever you pick won't open the file anyway.
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
Manually Rebuilding Spotlight via Terminal
If the aforementioned Spotlight control panel approach doesn’t spur a reindexation of the drive, you may need to initiate it manually through the command line. Open Terminal and use the following command string to do so:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically asks for temporary super user status, which is why Terminal may ask you for your password (it may not if you’ve used a sudo command recently or are already logged in as a super user or root. The command asks the unix tool mdutil to reindex the spotlight database for everything on the computer, including external drives, mounted disk images, etc. To re-index only for a specific drive, use the /Volumes path. For example, for an external drive named “MiniMe,” the command would look like this:
sudo mdutil -i on /
Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.
If still need be…
Open Terminal and run each of these one at a time
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -lint -r -f -v -dump -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network
killall Dock
sudo mdutil -E /
sudo mdutil -i on /
Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.
dialabrain wrote:
Not really. For one thing if you have to resort to "All Applications" it's likely whatever you pick won't open the file anyway.
Pretty often, I have an application that will open the file in question (ex. VLC).
ykt28403 wrote:
Pretty often, I have an application that will open the file in question (ex. VLC).
VLC would normally be in the list of Recommended Applications for most video files.
Open With / Other / All Applications by default
