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I recently upgraded to CS6 Master on Mac Mountain, and noticed that smart objects in Photoshop don't open in their respective applications. For example, when I double-click on the smart object, they open in Preview instead of Illustrator. How do I prevent Preview from opening smart objects? How do I make smart objects open in the application in which they were created?

Chris,
Thank you for the prompt response. I have already checked my file types/extension associations. .EPS and .AI files are default set to open in Illustrator. PDFs are currently set to open in Preview, which I don't mind and I know I can change this to Acrobat if I need to.
Oddly enough, I forced ALL .EPS files to open in Illustrator (I got a prompt that asked if I wanted to change opening all EPS files from Illustrator CS6 to Illustrator CS6), and that seemed to have the desired effect.
Weird, but thanks for the help!

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