Either way, you’ll bring up the Get Info box.įinder window with app icons in toolbar (click for a larger version) It all starts with Get Info (⌘-I): click once on the icon to select it, and then either choose Get Info from the File menu, or ⌘-I.

This is really easy, and we can do it for one file, or for all files of the same type. How do we tell the Mac that we always want to use a certain app for a certain file? But let’s say you want to open this file with something other than the default app, every time. You know that double-clicking a file will open it up, so how does the Mac know which app you want to use? Well, the menu you get when you Control-click gives a hint: the app at the top of the list has “(default)” after it, and that means it’s the app that will open unless you say otherwise. (Your “Open With…” menu will probably look different than mine, because you probably have a different set of apps on your Mac.) Just slide over to the app you want to open the file with, and voilá. For example: Control-click for “Open With…” You can do this too: just hold the Control key down and click (once) on the icon you’re interested in. How did I know which apps could open a JPEG on my Mac? I used the Control-click method, that’s how. For example, on my Mac the following apps can open a JPEG:

Some documents, especially images, can potentially be opened by several apps on a Mac.

Affinity vs pixelmator