The sort of thing that stymies a relatively recent “switcher”…
I installed Adobe Acrobat 7.x the other day..and it took over my default PDF reader setting. I prefer using Preview as it’s much faster to load & uses less screen real estate…couldn’t figure out how to get “preview” back as my default reader.
Here’s the answer:
choose a file you want opened with Apple Preview, control-click on it and choose “Get Info” from the pop-up menu. In the window that opens go down to the third section called “Open With”, choose “Apple Preview” and press the “Change All” button.
There is likely a .plist file or something that you can hand edit to make this kind of fix but I haven’t yet found it.
Thanks to macosx.com for that helpful tidbit…