Double clicking no longer opens my events or enlarges photos

this happened i believe after the last leopard update. any ideas?

sorry, my mouse preferences needed to be reset.

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Thanks for your response, macjack. I did check my settings yesterday and all seem to be set correctly. After reading an article on the subject, I also rebooted my Mac in Safe Mode and tried launching an app from the finder with my bluetooth track pad. It will not work either. The article suggested that if this were the case, it could be a software issue.
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Thanks for the tip, but that did also not fix the problem. I ended up removing Acrobat 9 from my system and reinstalling it and all the updates up to 9.3.2. It's working again.
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I am in the same boat. I had to import all of my caldendars of which I have many. Fifteen different calendars for different groups of meetings at work etc. So, I take the time to install them over 40 of them individually. Now, I cannot edit them. Most importantly, I cannot change the Color associated with it. I get the edit window... I click on the calander name associated in the drop down menu.. but no way to access a color choice. The color is how the calendar has visual clarity. Why did they take that away? The ical problems are HUGE and many of us migrated to it from other software calendar programs to the tiger version which was great.
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I have both Photoshop 4 and Photoshop 6 on my computer. When I am in Bridge and want to open an image by double clicking, it automatically opens in 6. I see, when I go to "open with" 6 is listed as "default" How can I change the default to open an image with a double click in 4?

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Hi,
Try this ... reboot your Mac and see if double clicking works again.
Also, you can just select the Application you like to open and hold down the Command+O to open.
Also, did you check your setting for the mouse in system preferences.
Dimaxum

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I'm pretty much at a loss. You might want to make sure that the open action is programed correctly in Windows.
Open Explorer and go to Tools > Folder Options... and scroll to .indd, then click the advanced button and select the Open action. Click Edit, and make sure that the "Application used to perform action" line includes "%1" (in quotes) after the path to InDesign. I believe the "confirm open after download" box should also be checked in the edit screen.
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download and install intego's virusbarrier
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We have one computer with multiple users. When I log in (sys admin) I have no problem. When wife logs in double clicking will not open anything. We have to do it manually. I'm sure a button is turned off but I can't find it. Any help out there?
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Open up the Keyboard and Mouse system preferences and make sure the double-click speed is not set too fast. If it is too fast, it doesn't register the double-click unless you click very fast.

TS3276 Mail shows in the doc, but when clicked or doubled clicked does not open on the desktop, HELP !

Mail shows in the doc, but when clicked or doubled clicked does not open on the desktop, HELP !

Try restarting your Mac.
Open Termimal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)Try entering this command: killall Dock, and then hit enter
Try dragging the Mail icon out of the dock, then let it disappear in a puff of smoke. Then from Applications/Mail try dragging the Mail icon back into the dock, and see if it works.
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Boot into your recovery partition (restart, hold down ⌘R until you see the Apple logo), and use Disk Utility to repair your hard drive. Repair permissions too while you're there. OS X: About OS X Recovery
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PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?

I had this same problem in Photoshop CS3 last year and found a solution but can't remember it in order to apply it to PSE8!!!!!
Double-clicking any image in Bridge causes the image to be opened by default in Preview. I can ctrl-click the image and select the app I want to open it with, but there must be a permanent solution.
Strangely enough, last night when I first got PSE8 it wasn't doing it ........ everything opened in PSE8. I'm just wondering what I have done to cause it to happen?
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The Mac has always used two four character 'codes' to associate a file with its 'TYPE" and its "CREATOR." But Apple has been warning developers for a couple of years that it might change that system. Apparently, in Snow Leopard, Apple did just that. They claim they did this for better compatibility since no other file system/OS uses this very useful system, even though some could. This data has usually been in the 'resource fork' file that Windows (and its users could see but had no idea what it was for. The beauty of the old system is that two files of the same type (text, for example) could be opened by two different programs, namely the programs that created them. Quite logical, in my humble opinion. Not to Apple.
Snow Leopard now has as its first rule, to use the preset apps that Apple decided it wants to use. Text should open in TextEdit, regardless of what app created it. html should open in Safari, even though the text file was created by BBEdit. jpegs were assigned to Preview, regardless... and, despite the efforts of Bridge, that is what is probably happening. The inconsistencies you are seeing may be the ongoing battle between Bridge and Snow Leopard! Or maybe not.
Since I create web pages with BBEdit, I want that app to open any file it created. So I selected an html file and changed the info in its Get Info window and told the OS to do that with any and all html files that are double-clicked. I'd suggest you do a similar change with the jpegs/tiffs/gifs/pngs/etc. that you want to edit in Elements. You should have to edit the info in one Get Info window for each type.
Of course, you can also use the right-click/option-click and use the Contextual Menu to force the OS to use whatever you want to open any file. That probably will not work in Bridge, of course. But you can give it a try. And it will simply take longer...might as well learn new habits because we all know that Apple (and Adobe?) know what's best for us. LOL! Apple claims the new system should be used by developers, but I have seen many of them explain why it won't work. It now will depend almost entirely on the three/four character suffix text at the end of a file name. It's the beginning of the end of one of the most useful and efficient file opening systems ever created. One of the major things that made even old, pre-OS X systems so easy to use and one of the things that was so much better than any other OS, IMHO. This change is called "progress." My definition includes words like "better" and/or "easier." Apparently Apple's definition doesn't use/need/want those words. :head bash:

Opening photoshop from double click on file opens the app but doesn't open the file.

This is a new behaviour... how can we solve it? Its very annoying!

Thanks!
Steps to reproduce:
Having the photoshop closed...
1 - Double click a psd file on the desktop (or any other place)
2 - Photoshop loads until it gets to the normal window
3 - The file wasn't opened
4 - Go back to the desktop and double click the file
5 - Photoshop (that is at this time already open), opens the file and displays it on screen
Shouldn't it be opening the file after loading photoshop?
details on my macbook and photoshop versions attached

Double clicking no longer opens my events or enlarges photos

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