When I click on "Default Apps" in System Settings I get a message:
"Settings Error
Could not load Default Apps settings pane"
No information, just an OK button.
Two questions:
1 Can this be fixed by me?
2 Is there another way to set certain file extensions to be opened by a different program from the current default?
Mac mini, macOS 13.3
macbriggs wrote:
Is there another way to set certain file extensions to be opened by a different program from the current default?
FWIW, the way you normally set which apps open certain files is to select a file, press command i, or choose "Get Info" from the File Menu, or control click on a file and choose Get Info, then select an app from the "Open with:" drop down menu, then click "Change All…"
I'm wondering if Default Apps (which was in System Preferences in my previous computer) was picked up in the Time machine backup I used on the new machine. I did notice a couple of other panes for programs I don't have on the new computer, such as MacFUSE.
Any way, I see that if you right-click on any .jpg file and choose Get Info you can set the behaviour there. So query closed I think!
Thank you! This was the first time I'd used the Community and I was amazed at the quick response. In case anyone reading this is wondering, I did some Googling and found the culprit for a "Default Apps" pane in System Preferences - it was called RCDefaultApp and I must have installed it years ago.
FWIW, there was never a "Default Apps" preference pane unless you had some third-party app that added one.
macbriggs wrote:
When I click on "Default Apps" in System Settings I get a message:
"Settings Error
Could not load Default Apps settings pane"
No information, just an OK button.
Two questions:
1 Can this be fixed by me?
2 Is there another way to set certain file extensions to be opened by a different program from the current default?
I see no "Default Apps" in System Settings...(?)
Maybe you can say more...
What " certain file extensions" ?
What "different program" ?
OK - specifically .jpg files are opened by default in Preview. I want to change that to Affinity Photo 2.
But the same method should work for changing the default behaviour of any file extension.
Interesting that you don't have Default Apps in your System Settings - screenshots of mine attached...
I guess there was a time delay there since we both seem to have posted at the same time so I hadn't seen your reply when I posted to your previous comment. Anyway, thanks for the answer. I've had default Apps in System preferences for ages so some other program must have put it there.
Sorry everyone for a fairly useless question!
FWIW, I don't see a "Default Apps" either.
Yes, i think I just said that. 😎
No problem. You're welcome and FWIW, there are no useless questions. 😎
You're welcome
Default Apps Pane in ventura 13.3.1
