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In practice, what this means is that although you can choose any application to handle anything, only valid associations will be preserved, as the LaunchServices is permanently looking for invalid or stale associations and removing them. In recent versions of macOS, the LaunchServices have become quite a bit smarter under the hood than they used to be. The second is "Other.", which obviously will allow you to select an application not in the list with a caveat.By default this application should be located in the Resources folder inside the prefpane bundle SwiftDefaultApps will, however, also look for it in the directory it is itself located in (for the CLI version) and every Applicationsfolder in the computer. Its only function is being able to open any URI Scheme or UTI whatsoever, printing a line to the console (specifying whatever it was that launched it) and immediately quitting. One of them is "Do Nothing", what this does is register the item to be handled by a dummy application which basically does nothing.This data is generated by LaunchServices itself. Selecting any URI Scheme or File type (always represented by a UTI), will give you a list of all valid applications for each LaunchServices role.The user-interface should be pretty self-explanatory but, there are some things that might require an explanation: This Preference pane will let you view and change default application associations for basically any URI Scheme and/or filetype in macOS. To uninstall, simply Ctrl+Click on the Prefpane icon and remove it, or move the.
#SWIFTDEFAULTAPPS INSTALL#
prefpane, and you will be prompted to install it. SwiftDefaultApps can do so much more than just setting VLC as the default app.To install, double click on the. I don’t mind using the first method but I consume a lot of video content and setting every format to play with VLC isn’t something I’d want to do. These were two simple ways to set VLC as your default media player.
#SWIFTDEFAULTAPPS HOW TO#
Read: How to Play MKV Files on Mac Set VLC as Default App on Mac All of the video files have been set to VLC now. Now, simply close the System Preferences and that’s it. Select Applications from the row of tabs, scroll down to find VLC and check all the media files that you want VLC to play. Once installed, you will find this app in System Preferences, Click SwiftDefaultApps icon.
#SWIFTDEFAULTAPPS DOWNLOAD#
Download the app from the Github page and install it on your system. It’s a preference pane app that would let us set any app as default. To set VLC as a default app for every video file type, we’d install a small utility app, Swift Default Apps.