"always open with" - wish I hadn't

Dear World,
I made the dumb mistake of making all my .eps files "Always open with" Illustrator in a moment of bleary-eyed madness. Now all my massive DCS files from Photoshop (and some new EPS's that my design team KEEP creating) only open in Illustrator unless I force them into Photoshop. Therefore, my question is, how do I undo this error? Is there a way of getting back to a default?
Can't believe there is no ither post about this, I must be the only idiot out here!
Many thanks
CarrotCruncher

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You can just pick a different app under Get Info (Open with...) for a file of that type, and Change All.
To clear all file-application associations, you can reset the LaunchServices database using freeware such as Onyx (Maintenance tab > Reset tab, use reset not rebuild). Note that after doing this, you will be asked to pick an application each time you open a new file type, but it will remember those and you will be all set fairly soon.
Hope this helps...

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