[OS X TeX] Two issues -- need help

M. Tamer =?ISO-8859-1?B?1g==?=zsu tozsu at sympatico.ca
Mon Aug 8 07:32:02 EDT 2005


Thank you Bruno, this seems to have fixed the problem.
-- 
M. Tamer Ozsu
University of Waterloo


> From: Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com>
> Reply-To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:14:01 +0200
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two issues -- need help
> 
> Le 6 août 05 à 19:49, M. Tamer Özsu a écrit :
> 
>> 2. On one of my machines, files with .tex extension have defaulted
>> to open
>> with the Script Editor. When I try to reset this to TexShop or
>> iTexMac from
>> Get Info window, it asks me if I really wanted to change, but then it
>> reverts back to Script Editor. What might be going wrong? I did fix
>> the
>> permissions, etc, but I can't think of what else to try.
>> 
>> (This is a more general problem with all file types, but I had to
>> make it
>> tex relevant for this list -) )
> 
> You may try rebuilding the Launch Services database. I'm not quite
> sure it will help, but who knows?
> 
> Before Tiger, this meant deleting the following files, then restarting:
> 
>      /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.6B.csstore
>      ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore
>      ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
> 
> On Tiger the organization and naming of the files have changed, it
> should be something like:
> 
>      /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-0140.csstore
>      /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-014501.csstore
>      /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-014504.csstore
>      ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
> 
> The names of the files inside /Library/Caches/ will probably be
> different on your setup, the digits at the end of the name refer to
> the user ID; I think 0140 is general, and there should be one 0145**
> per user account.
> 
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