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Native if you want pre-installed apps are sufficient in most cases. However, some users may prefer other applications, such as third-party ones, for certain file types. I personally encountered this problem when I needed to open an HTML file. Since the HTML file can be opened on Mac in TextEdit, which is sufficient for the HTML language, but the display is not ideal, I decided to use a third-party program - Sublime Text. However, so that I don't have to right-click on each HTML file every time and manually select that I want to open the file in this program, I set it to open automatically in it. If you would also like to find out how to do it, then read this article to the end.

How to change the default applications for certain files on Mac

As I mentioned in the introduction, if you want to open a file in an application other than the native one, you right-click on it, go to the Open in application option, and then select the application from the list through which you want to open the program. In order to apply this setting to a certain type of file, and so that you don't always have to open it manually in a certain program, proceed as follows. For a file with an extension for which you want to set automatic opening in another program, right click. Then select an option from the menu Information. Once you do so, in the new window that appears, open using small arrows possibility Open in app. Here you then z menu choose which one application you want to use to open files with this extension. Once you have selected the application, click on the button Change all… After that, the last notification will appear, for which you just need to click on the button Continue. This will make the changes and all files with the same extension will start opening in the selected program. After that, just close the window.

This way, you can gradually change the programs you use to open files with a certain type of extension. This setting can be useful, as I already mentioned in the introduction, for example, to change the default program for opening HTML files, but also, for example, for opening images through Adobe Photoshop, etc. In short and simply, even in macOS, the user can simply choose in which program, its files will be opened.

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