Change preferred application to open files

Sometimes your Mac may open certain files with a less preferred application, and you would like to tell it to use a different application from now on.

This is very easy to use, following these steps as illustrated above.

First, select the file (or one of the series of files) in the finder, and choose “File > Get Info” (or press “Command i” or Right-click and select Get Info) to bring up the “Get Info” window as in Fig. 1.

Then go to the “Open With” part of the Get Info window as in Fig. 2 and select the application of your choice. If your preferred application does not appear in the resulting pop-up menu (and you are sure it can open this file) click “Other” and select the application.

Once this is done you may want to click the “Change All” button (Fig 3.) which tells OS X to open this type of file with your preferred application from now on.