File Associations: Preview no longer working correctly
Over the past week or so, Preview has been misbehaving for me.
If I double-click on a file that's supposed to be opened with Preview by default (.jpg, .pdf files, e.g.) it says "unexpected error occurred." If I then right-click on the file and select Open With and select Preview, it says "You cannot open the application 'Preview' because it is in the
Trash."
Which is utter hogwash, because Preview is NOT in the trash, it's right where it's supposed to be in the Applications folder. Launching Preview from there and then opening the target file works fine, but doesn't solve
the original problem.
So there's a file association problem, but try as I might, I cannot figure out how to correct this. A reboot did not help.
Based on the fact that the default for opening files is "Preview (3.0.7)" and then further on down the menu there's also "Preview (3.0.9)", methinks that there's still some part of the OS that thinks the old version should be used but cannot find it. Try as I might, nothing's correcting the problem.
Another way I tried to fix the problem was this: used the Finder to select one of the document types I am trying to open (pdf, etc.). Right clicked on that document and chose 'Get Info'. Under the 'Open With' section went through the motions of explicitly choosing Applications\Preview again (then hit the 'Change All...' button).
File permissions have been repaired, the plists for Preview have been deleted - I can't think of anything else to try.
17" Macbook Pro (2.33 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB) Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Empty the trash, restart, and reset the LaunchServices database as described in http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html
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