Re: [Skim-app-users] making Skim.app the default PDF viewer *permanently*

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On 10 Mar 2009, at 4:34 AM, ski...@re... wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I continue to have the following problem and can't figure out what is
> causing it:
>
> When I change the default application to view PDF files to Skim (File
> Info -> Open with ... / Change all), Skim becomes the default viewer
> for PDFs for the current session. After logging out and back in, the
> default Application has been reset to Preview.app. Each time I login,
> I have to redo these steps. And that pretty much annoys me.
>
> I am administering my system by myself, no-one else is messing with
> it, so there must be something wrong in the system. I don't think the
> bug is on Skim's side, but I was hoping that someone else might have
> experienced something similar and might have some advice. Here is a
> summary of what I have tried (of course I have checked all sorts of
> mailing lists and google and the like, but without success):
>
> Performing a "defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices" gives me
> {
>     LSHandlers =     (
>                 {
>             LSHandlerContentType = "com.adobe.pdf";
>             LSHandlerRoleAll = "net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim";
>         }
>     );
> }
> pretty much the same before and after changing the default setting for
> PDFs as above. That looks alright to me. But apparently it can't be
> the correct place where MacOS stores the information of what
> Application to use for what file type. Does anybody happen know where
> that information would be hidden?
>
> Deleting /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-*.csstore helped
> once for one single relogin, but that can't be a long-term solution
> either, if I have to do that again and again every time I log in.
>
> I suspect that this strange effect might have to do with my encrypted
> home directory, since that is probably something not many people would
> use. If anybody does use it as well and has no problems with setting
> Skim as the default PDF viewer, please let me know. Otherwise I can't
> see what I am doing so different from other Skim users.
>
> Any thought's what else I could try?! Anything is appreciated!
>
> Cheers
>
> Bjoern
>
> ---
> MacOS 10.5.6, Skim Version 1.2.1 (39)
>

Strange, I've never heard of this. If you can you should file a bug  
report with Apple about this, because it's obviously a bug somewhere  
in the system. Have you tried resetting your launch services cache?

Type the following in Terminal.app on a single line:

System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ 
LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -all  
local,user,system

Christiaan