[OS X TeX] Icons for .tex files became generic doc type

Herb Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sun Sep 7 15:32:01 EDT 2014



> On Sep 7, 2014, at 2:13 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I rebuilt Launch Services using Onyx. And did light cleaning for user, all
> users, and system using Mavericks Cache Cleaner. Still same problem.
> 
> A clue: when in Terminal I run mils on any .tex file, among other things, I
> see:
> 
>     kMDItemContentType             = "com.barebones.bbedit.tex-source"
>     kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
>    "com.barebones.bbedit.tex-source",
>    "public.source-code",
>    "public.plain-text",
>    "public.text",
>    "public.data",
>    "public.item",
>    "public.content"
>     )
> 
> and:
> 
>     kMDItemFSTypeCode              = "TEXT"
>     kMDItemKind                    = "TeX source file"
> 
> This is the case even though I used Get Info not only to open the .tex file
> with TeXShop.app, but to do a Change All for "all documents like this one".

Howdy,

If you double-click a .tex file does open in TeXShop? If so I wonder how the OS is keeping track of that.

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz 


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