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HI, Rob,

Alwyn's method does work, I've used it before.
But I am correct about Apple removing things. But wrong about when. LOL I just checked my Mojave boot disk, that is a fresh, ground up install. It does *not* have a default apps control panel.
But the Mojave install that I use on a daily basis does have a Default Apps control panel, where I can set all those defaults at one time. I don't have to find a file of a particular type, then select the default app. Then find another file type, and set that. And on and on. What a waste of my time, as I've got better things to be doing. And what do you do if you want to associate a filetype to Program A, and you don't have a file of that type on your computer?
What I keep forgetting... The Mojave installation I use on a daily basis is not the same as an out of the box install. It's a continuation of in place upgrades starting with 10.6 Snow Leopard. As a result, I still have my Dashboard, and a Default Apps control panel. I don't remember ever installing a third party app, such as Tuxera, that added the Default Apps control panel.
There are other differences. When using Stacks, the image on the stacks folder is, or at least was as I haven't check in a while, different than the out of the box installation. And in Safari, in my list of possible search engines, I have Yandex. Yandex was in iOS 7, but I don't know about earlier versions of Safari, as I am a Firefox user.
There's a couple other things that I've discovered that are different, all of which makes it less likely I'll upgrade. If I've got features I use that disappear in a newer version of the OS, why would I want to upgrade? 



On 2/27/20 9:18 AM, Rob wrote:

Ken,

I have Catalina (10.15.3) running and with me it’s working exactly as described.

Success,
Rob.


Op 27 feb. 2020, om 17:08 heeft Ken Springer <snowshed1@q.com> het volgende geschreven:

On 2/27/20 7:29 AM, Alwyn wrote:

Thanks for that although the route must have changed with Catalina.


I don't use Catalina as I have some 32 bit software that I use.

But I do have a bootable Catalina drive that I just booted into.

It looks like Apple has removed that feature from System Preferences. Unless they've moved it 
somewhere else, but I didn't find anything with a quick web search.

Meaning, Apple has removed the more efficient way of setting file associations.  :-(

I do part time computer tutoring, as I'm retired.  So I've been spending a lot of time learning 
Windows 10.  It seems both Apple and Microsoft is removing things you can adjust from the GUI that 
makes the systems easier for an individual user.

That being said, I don't know what is possible via Terminal or Command Line/Powershell.


I used
Finder/Help/entered default, and was directed to 'Choose an app to open a
file on Mac'.  Under "Permanently change the app used to open a file"
process is:
1. On your Mac, click the Finder icon  in the Dock to open a Finder window.
2. Select the file, then choose File > Get Info.
     You can also Control-click the file, then choose Get Info.
3. In the Info window, click the disclosure triangle next to “Open with”.
4. Click the pop-up menu, then choose the app.
I chose Libre Office for a .odt file and likewise for a .ods and the sam
with .doc, .docx,. xls and .xlsx


This way of setting the default program goes all the way back to 10.5, Leopard, in 2009.  Possibly 
further back, as 2009 was when I bought my first Mac.

Did you remember to click the Change All button so all .odt files open with LO, and not just the 
one file?


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Ken
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Thunderbird 60.8
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     and it's gone!"


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Firefox 70.0.1
Thunderbird 60.8
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
      and it's gone!"


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