I'm using OS X 10.11.6. The Adobe reader updated itself. I don't know why. I used Time Machine to restore the previous version, keeping both versions. Now, I can't make the restored version be the default. Help?
Mac mini (Late 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Might be a corrupt .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.adobe.Reader.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
That fixed the problem with setting the default application. Thank you.
I can't find any place to turn off automatic updates. The Help menu allows me to check for updates.
This is probably another problem. My Acrobat reader has started quitting unexpectedly. Do you have any suggestions what to do about that?
I might have panicked prematurely. I suspect that Adobe is quitting unexpectedly only when I have the Preferences window open and then open some other application in front of it. So far, it's been otherwise working normally. I apologize for the unnecessary question.
I followed your suggested procedure and let it create a new plist. When I opened Adobe again, I had to go through the initial stuff. That was okay but then I discovered that it had changed some things that I didn't know how to fix, like putting my files in new tabs every time and opening task bars that I couldn't eliminate. So, I put the old plist back. I think that maybe it now works the same as before. It still unexpectedly quits when I have the preferences window open. I haven't had it unexpectedly quit otherwise. Maybe it'll be okay.
I'm a writer, not a computer expert. This kind of thing makes me tend to panic. I started out using typewriters.
Do you have automatic updates set in Preferences?
Select a PDF file and do a Get Info (command - I) on the file. Under Open with, set the older version. Then click Change All.
Not a problem. Easy fixes are always best.
If it only quit when the preferences window is open, it should be useable for day-to-day tasks.
OS X 10.11.6 and the Adobe reader
