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Associate a file extension with an app in Snow Leopard

Associate a file extension with an app in Snow Leopard

How do you associate a filetype with a certain application in Snow Leopard? Apparently this is different than the last 20 years of Mac operating systems because every article I find about Leopard or before works a certain way (select file, Get Info, specify application under Open With, click Change All, confirm) but when you do this in Snow Leopard, when you Change All, it immediately reverts the app you chose back to what it was. No problem, so I reselect the app. Except now I'm only doing it for the specific file again. How do you associate a filetype with a specific app?

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Guest [Entry]

Even after rebuilding the db and after calling AppleCare, no solution was found to this problem. Files could only be associated one at a time with the app created by me. But I could open a .url file in OS X FireFox which prompts FF to ask which app to use. From here I could select my app and 'always open with'.
Guest [Entry]

"Snow Leopard is the same as the other OSes... File Info is the correct way to go...
But the Launch Services Database appears to be damaged / corrupted.

First try a safe boot, by rebooting with the left shift key depressed, reboot again after the login window appears, and try reseting the default application.

If that doesn't work, then download Cocktail (Snow Leopard edition), and then use the System --> Databases --> Rebuild"