MAC question: choosing default program

Doesn’t apply to OS X. I would do it 3-4 times a year minimum under OS 9 (and its predecessors dating back to the days when operating systems fit on floppies).
OK, there’s sort of an OS X equivalent of rebuilding the Desktop, but it isn’t done the same way and doesn’t need it anywhere near as often (if at all). Essentially it involves nuking some caches so wrongly cached data isn’t being utiliized by the OS.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=28599

Great. I owe you guys a drink, although I think AHunter3 is the only one close enough to collect. So, next time you’re planning on being in the East Village, drop me a line.

mischievous

For waht it is worth, you don’t have to restart to rebuild the desktop.
With the finder as the front most (active) application, hit comman-option-escape. You will get a dialog saying “do you want to force quit the application Finder” (or something like that. if it is a diffrent program, say no – the finder isn’t the front most app). say yes and quickly hold down option and command (or hold them down while clicking “yes”. You will get the dialog asking if you want to rebuild the destop.

Not that under certain OSes, rebuilding the desktop causes “get Info” comments to be cleared.

Brian

It’s OK, I’ll drink on behalf of the other folks.

:slight_smile: