[OS X TeX] TeXMaker stole my file associations

[Michael Sharpe]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

> Hi, I was taking a look at TeXMaker, just out of curiosity, (not impressed) and now it's decided that it should open all my TeX-related files, which is very annoying. Since there are a lot of tex-related file extensions, I'm wondering if there's a command-line or stand-alone utility way to change a whole bunch of extensions at once, rather than having to find one of each type and manually go through the "Get Info" + "Change for all" route.
> 
> Any suggestions?
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> Also, is there any way to stop an application from stealing file associations like this?
> 
> Alan
> 

You might find RCDefaultApp (a prefpane) useful. There's a nice quick description of what it does at

http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/set-default-applications-in-mac-os-x/

Michael