After 10.4.7 upg: impossible to choose a classic app as default for files
My upgrade to 10.4.7 has been almost painless, but I've found a peculiar inconvenience: I have some files that I would like to open with a Classic application (a very nice TeX implementation that, alas, is still now available in Mac OS X). Since the upgrade, their default app has become TextEdit: I'm able to change it on file-per-file basis, but if I try to do it for all files at the same time, the default snaps back to TextEdit.
I've already taken some of the usual measures (permission repair, disk verify, cleaning of caches). These files have the classic Finder metadata for type (TEXT) and creator (*TeX). I've tried to change their default app also to SimpleText (another classic app that can operate on TEXT files) with the same result.
Same problem here. Since 10.4.7 I can't change documents default app to their classic application. In my case RagTime 3 docs where suddenly assigned to RagTime 5 for OS X. I can change on by one but I can't "change all" (snaps back to RagTime 5)
Any suggestions anybody?
Cube Mac OS X (10.4.7)
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