How To Choose Which App Will Open a File On Your Mac

[@georgee3401]

As usual, this video was another valuable learning experience. Many thanks!

[@hanshuber5659]

Hi Gary, the last one, with the keyboard shortcut is ingenious👍

[@alignedvisiongroup1334]

GREAT VIDEO - thanks for the tip... changing the default app on ALL files... very easy to understand and east to execute

[@Greg-fg1rd]

this video also Opened my eyes. Thanks!

[@honeyoo-o1v]

Thank you so much!!! There are still many things to learn everyday,... even when it is not a big stuff!!

[@carolinebarlow4795]

Thanks very much, Gary, for this informative video! Some very useful options here.

[@garudasomanna]

Upon reading the title I first thought that I needn't waste time watching something I thought I fairly knew well about, but, knowing Gary, I started watching it, and, lo, what fantastic new reams of information have I learnt from this learned man!!! Thanks a lot for this video you genius, hats off to your magnificent knowledge of Mac🙏. Being a audio video editor, I was facing the problem of opening an audio file in GarageBand and had to go through this laborious process: click 'open with', select all apps, and then select GarageBand! But now, after watching your ever-new video, I have learnt that I can open the audio file in GarageBand very easily: by dragging the file onto the GarageBand icon in the dock! Wow man, how few people know that you are a genuine genius😃 PS: I tried dragging the audio file to the GarageBand icon in the dock, but, the GB icon is not getting highlighted! The audio file BTW is an mp3 file.

[@macmost]

GarageBand opens files of type "GarageBand." A GarageBand file is a project that contains tracks, etc. GarageBand can't open an MP3 file because it doesn't just open audio files like that. You need to create a project and then drag the mp3 file into it as a track. It is like how Pages won't open an image file, but you can certainly create a Pages document and them import an image into it.

[@garudasomanna]

Agreed. However, when I select 'all applications and then I will be able to open the audio file in a new untitled project that GarageBand opens.@@macmost

[@macmost]

@@garudasomanna So I supposed GarageBand tells macOS it can't "open" mp3 files, but when forced to do so, it does at least do that.

[@stephenbridges2791]

Good tips. As I have gotten older, I find I am usually content to use Apple's default apps. I think I have one third party app for recording guitar, etc. Cool video, as always.

[@Prasujith]

Do you have 24 inch iMac? How good is screen real estate for reading text from two windows side by side? Can you make video on that. Thanks

[@macmost]

Sorry, no, I don't have one to test. Even if I did "how good" would be subjective so it would vary from person to person. Go into a store and take a look at it yourself before buying one.

[@Prasujith]

Thanks.

[@NishantRajKetan]

Great Tutorial Thank You

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@bikoncy]

I'm trying to find ways to create a circular text on Keynote. Can you help?

[@macmost]

There's no way to do it in Keynote. You need to use a graphics app to do it, then import that graphic into Keynote.

[@Hassan_Rajput_PAS]

Hello sir my Finder is not responding. I have watched many videos, but none is working. Can you please guide me

[@macmost]

Try a restart. If that doesn't work, call Apple Support.

[@Bohdan_HI-TECH]

There's a problem with keyboard shortcuts method: for any shortcut that I assign to open a file with Pixelmator (I used ctrl + shift + 0, but also other combinations), when I use it, it only opens an image in Pixelmator first time. After that it either opens Pixelmator itself, not image, or not working at all... Keyboard shortcuts are too buggy

[@macmost]

Perhaps because it is activating the Apple Menu, Recent Items instead of Open With. Hmmm. You can go to System Settings, Control Center and set Recent documents, applications and servers to None if you like.

[@Bohdan_HI-TECH]

@@macmost Good point, however, disabling Recent items didn't change such behaviour

[@macmost]

@@Bohdan_HI-TECH Continue your investigation from there. If it isn't working, then where is the keyboard shortcut applied? Look through the menu bar to find out.

[@Bohdan_HI-TECH]

@@macmost It was applied to 'Apple' menu, even after Recent items were turned off. What I also tried: make Finder show all extensions, and then create a shortcut with Pixelmator Pro dot app like in your video. It works, however only once; after that it either opens Pixelmator with the first image opened or system just makes error sound

[@macmost]

@@Bohdan_HI-TECH So when you look in the Apple Menu, where do you see your keyboard shortcut shown? Look in each submenu for it. If there is anything named "Pixelmator Pro.app" it should show that keyboard shortcut.

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary!👏🏻❤️

[@zubiamalik3299]

Thanku for rescuing me 😅