[X4U] Default application association problem.

[Michael Winter]

On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Preston Kutzner wrote:

> The next part of this problem is that Thunderbird, for some reason, has
> Acrobat Reader 6.0 set as the default application for opening pdf 
> files.
> I had assumed it was using the system default for that file type, so I
> went in and changed the default application to be Preview.  This works
> through finder and any other application that gets it's program
> association information from the OS.  However, even after changing the
> global default, Thunderbird still attempts to open any pdf's attached 
> to
> an email with Reader 6.0.  I have even tried installing 7.0 on these
> systems, but it won't let go of the 6.0 association.

I don't have Thunderbird, but I'm guessing you need to open the 
preferences for Thunderbird and change the default application there.

Apple had flip-flopped a couple times over the years in wether every 
application should keep track of "helper apps" itself, or refer to a 
global set of preferences. So I wouldn't be surprised to see an 
occasional app using its own set of file-application associations 
instead of deferring to the OS.

-Mike