If you don't see the checkbox, click the Options button at the lower left of the window and it should appear. Tick the checkbox next to Always Open With to ensure your selection applies in future to all files with the same extension (AVI files, in our case).In our example, we're selecting the VLC media player app. A new navigation window will appear for you to select an alternative app to open the selected file.From the contextual menu, select Open With -> Other.
The following steps show you how to do just that.
Sometimes you may have a legitimate reason for changing which app your Mac automatically launches when you open a common file type – when a newly installed app assumes control of it, or when you want to open AVI video files in VLC instead of QuickTime, for instance. Right click on your file, and then select Get Info (or.Each document that you have on your Mac is associated with a default application which macOS uses to open the file whenever you double-click on its icon in Finder. In this example, we want to set Photoshop to open any time a JPEG file is double-clicked. Find a file that’s the type you want to change.
