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How to change file associations on Mac OS X?

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Mar 15, 20262658 views
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By default PNG images open in Preview. At some point, this has changed on my system so that clicking on a PNG file launches Paintbrush. While that's a really nice app, I'd still like the default to be Preview. How to change it back? (I formulated the question title to be little more generic — how t…

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Fix for: How to change file associations on Mac OS X?

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Get Info on the file in Finder (⌘I) Find the "Open with:" section Change the application to the one you want Click "Change All…" to apply the change for all files of the same type.

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