Last of 3 articles explains how macOS selects and starts the app with which to open a document which you double-clicked/tapped.
xattr
The greatest skill in memory is not the remembering, but knowing what to forget – something that macOS is useless at. Why doesn’t it clear out its old crud?
Now surveys and warns of items like apps which could become impaired with over-enthusiastic stripping of xattrs, etc. Great in Dark Mode too.
A first alpha release, which appears stable and almost fully functional, but will cause havoc if used inappropriately.
Improvements for all, but most particularly for full compatibility with Mojave. Have you seen these running in Dark Mode?
Now has 3 ways to open a file, including drag and drop, which also lets you open folders as well.
New version with a xattr Scanner, to find and analyse types of xattr you didn’t know existed, how often they occur, and more.
Adds quick copying to 6 key values, making them much easier and more efficient to paste into other apps, and fixes a bug in Save.
Provides a unique collection of info, including volfs path, inode number, extended attribute and total sizes, Base-64 encoded Bookmark, and more.
First full releases of two free tools to edit metadata which can greatly help Spotlight search. Complete with docs and Help books.
