Problems changing the Open with... setting
Hi,
Having recived my new MacBook Pro with the trial version of Office 2004 I removed this using the remove utility as I have the full version of Office X.
However, I get the error code -10660 when I try and open documents. I have tracked this down to the fact that the default Open with... setting is Word 2004 etc.
I can manually select the correct program to open these files with, but when I set it so that all files with .doc open with this older version of Word it defaults back to the new version. (I am using the Change All... option under the Get Info option).
If I manually do this using Open with.. for each file it works, but this is both time consuming and silly.
iMac G5, MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.5)
Missed the post above. Running this at the terminal did fix the problem:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister \
-kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
The question was, why should I have had to have done this!!
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