Default Application - extension kmz

When I create a kmz file (used in GPS and Google Earth), the default application to open it is Photoshop. I want it to be Google Earth.
I can change the default for one file, but when I try to change for all files, it flips back to Photoshop. I have "Default Apps" installed in my control panel and when I try to change the default for that extension using that program / control panel, the same thing happens - it jumps back to Photoshop.
Any suggestions?
I have recently checked my hard drive and it goes through a long sequence of changing permissions in one direction, then back. Every time I check permissions, I get this same long log.

Although that references only through 10.3, yes. Get Info, go to drop down menu, select Google Earth, select Change All. When I do that, it reverts to Photoshop.
No matter how many times I do that, it always jumps back to Photoshop. Even when I go to the Control Panel - Default Apps, it jumps back. When I go to the program listings in Default Apps, the selection to uncheck .kmz, it is grayed out.

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Making Photoshop default application to open RAW images

Situation:
I had to reload Photoshop to resolve some problems.
Problem:
Now, when I highlight a RAW file and then right click to open it, Photoshop does not appear after I click <Open with>. Other options appear, but Photoshop does not.
Although:
I can click <Other>, and with a few more clicks, open in Photoshop. Also, when I click <Get info> for a RAW file and the info window opens, I am able to change the opening application for that particular file to Photoshop.
The bigger problem:
While in the Info window, I have attempted to change "Open With" to Photoshop as default for all files ending with the RAW extension, but it does not take. "Not applicable" appears in the application window after I click <Continue>, which is the final step in making a specific application the default application to open the file type in question. "Read and Write" permissions are in place.
What I'd like to do:
Make Photoshop appear as the Default Application to open RAW files when I right click on the RAW file.
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Thank you.
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Quoted: Also, when I click <Get info> for a RAW file and the info window opens, I am able to change the opening application for that particular file to Photoshop.
When you have selected Photoshop there, then you have to press the button "Change All...". Now every RAW file will be opened in Photoshop.
If Photoshop has not been listed there you can go with the "Other..." option in the drop down menu and select Photoshop from the application folder.
Quoted: Make Photoshop appear as the Default Application to open RAW files when I right click on the RAW file.
You know you can also open file's just by clicking twice with the normal left mouse key? If you have set Photoshop as Default (like described above) then it will also open in Photoshop.
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Disabling Appleworks Default Application Status

When I download Word documents from my students to my desktop the iMac lists the file kind as "com.apple.appleworks.word" even though the document has a "doc" extension. When I try to change the word processing application from Appleworks to Word (in Get Info), it doesn't allow it. I can't change Appleworks from being the default application. Many times Word won't even launch now when I force the document to open with Word. I used to be able to click on the icon and Word would automatically open these documents. Not any more.

You're taking the right actions—Get Info and change Open With to MS Word (then click Change All to apply the instruction to all AW files).
That the Mac won't allow you to do this is probably a permissions issue. Get Info on one of the files and check the Permissions and Ownership section to determine if you can Read and Write. If you can only Read, you may need to change (or get the file's owner to change) permissions to allow you to Write before changing the Open with association of the file.
One thing you might try—create a new AppleWorks word processing file (using AppleWorks, and while logged on to your usual account). Save and Close the file, then Get Info, change the Open with association and click the Change All button.
As an alternative, you should be able to open the files in Word by dragging the file icon onto the Word icon in the Dock.
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A couple of weeks ago, instead of OPENING a page, I kept getting a popup with a choice of opening or saving a application/x-httpd-php file. I do NOT want it downloaded into my computer temp files, but that is exactly what it is doing. The default of "always ask" is fine, but Firefox isn't one of the available selections below it. I have chosed "other" over and over, selected Firefox, saved it and gone to the same website and voila - it opens the page but this is the URL: file:///C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/VH34Jzs+-1.part I go back to Troubleshooting and open the application extensions and, sure enough, it's back to "always ask." I did the removal of the mimeTypes.rdf and rebooted but it didn't help.
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This sounds like a server misconfiguration.<br />
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Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
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"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
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When we install some new program, for example GIMP, I assume the newly installed program is added to some mime type database, and the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache file is automatically generated.
Using my example, GIMP will be the default application for all its registered mime types, even application/pdf. I surely don't want this to happen, and I surely don't want to create all kinds of files that GIMP registered and right click on them and choose Properties and then change it in the Open with... tab. I want to systematically de-prioritize GIMP so that it will not override my previously assigned default applications.
I wrote a script to modify the mimeinfo.cache file, and it seems to work great. However, after a reboot or upgrade or something I didn't notice, the default application of application/pdf is reconfigured to GIMP. I think the cache suffix of the file indicates that it is just a cache and may be changed by system unnoticed. So I am looking for a new way to change the default applications.
As far as I know or guess from the phenomena, there should be some system utility that generates the mimeinfo.cache file, it seems to parse all the *.desktop files under /usr/share/applications and register them to certain mime types accordingly. The sequence of the *.desktop files get parsed seems to be related to the time the application is installed, and the newly installed applications seems to be parsed later and inserted in the front of the application list or be parsed earlier and appended to the application list. Is there some place I can change the sequence of the parsing? Or is there some place I can change the behavior of the system utility?
I know that I can populate my ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to override the system wide defaults, however, I want a more elegant way to this.
Any opinion on this is welcomed.
Last edited by AugustePop (2010-05-14 05:47:15)

Ah, right. Don't know what DE you are on, but in Gnome: right-click a (e.g. pdf) file -> Preferences -> Open with.
All Applications listed there will be available from the right click menu, the marked one will be used on double-click.
errgrh...
I surely don't want to create all kinds of files that GIMP registered and right click on them and choose Properties and then change it in the Open with... tab. I want to systematically de-prioritize GIMP so that it will not override my previously assigned default applications.
I guess what I am trying to propose is this: "de-prioritize" GIMP in its .dekstop file for the types you dont want it to be associated with, and manually add it back in through "Open With" for the file types you want it to be an option. Not sure if this is solving anything for you though
Last edited by hokasch (2010-05-14 10:28:57)

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I have an Instapaper account, so that I can mark some online web pages to 'read later' if I wish to do this. I have successfully put the Instapaper 'Read Later' borkmarklet on the dock of my iMAC.
However, whenever, I come across a web page or blog that I wish to read later, and click the 'Read Later' bookmarklet on my dock, it throws up an error message that reads ' There is no default application specified to open the URL' and so I am now at a dead end.
Can someone explain to me where and how I can find the default application to get round this problem. By the way, I did not find this problem with Instapaper's 'read later' bookmarklet on my old Windows PC, where I was able to store pages for reading later with this app, and also to transfer them automatically to my kindle through the wifi connection at home.
I hope someone can assist... Or is there another way - (apart from Instapaper which worked okay with Windows)- to save web pages for reading later with MAC -
Thanks

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