Making Logic NOT be the default app fpr opening AIFFs

Hi Guys, been wandering this for a while - since starting using L7 Logic has been the default app that launches when i open an AIFF....Same now with L8.. I Can't ever remember choosing this behaviour & its a bit of a pain when i just wanna preview an audio file quickly outside of logic & either need to sit there for 2 minutes while the app launches or have to right click, then slide down to 'open with quicktime' every file (i'd prefer quicktime as a quick & easy app for this)
I have scanned every preference box I could see in both logic & quicktime (& searched via spotlight) but can't find an answer, anyone know of one?

Hi. There is no way I know of doing what you want to do.No overall setting I am aware of that is. The above things are on a per-instance situation. Not a global setting. But they do "change" the setting per-instance once set in the get info window.Which obviously doesn't apply to something newly created. It would be nice to know how to do what you want. Anybody know?? I don't//JON

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