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Auto open docx and xlsx files in MS Office 2011 after it download in Safari (com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist not work)

Check "Open safe files" in Safari and define docx and xlsx extensions in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist not work. Old doc and xls files was auto opened successfully...


Content of .plist file:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>LSRiskCategorySafe</key>

<dict>

<key>LSRiskCategoryExtensions</key>

<array>

<string>doc</string>

<string>docx</string>

<string>xls</string>

<string>xlsx</string>

<string>ppt</string>

<string>pptx</string>

</array>

</dict>

</dict>

</plist>

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Apr 22, 2013 12:59 AM

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Apr 22, 2013 8:30 AM in response to Igor.Barkovsky

Yes, but there at least you are talking to people who all use the app, while in this forum (which is for hardware and not software in any case, so already off the mark, since the problem has nothing to do with hardware), it is probably a minority.


A better place would be


https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion


and or


https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/safari


I did see someone from serveral years ago with the same problem at


http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/877358-open-microsoft-office-files-automatical ly-after-download-in-safari/


I wonder if there is another list somewhere of permissible extensions in that .plist....

Auto open docx and xlsx files in MS Office 2011 after it download in Safari (com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist not work)

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