Good News: Yosemite Lets you set old app versions as default

[Traverse]

Many of you may remember that in Mavericks even if you set Pages '09 as the default for ".pages" apps, they would open in Pages 5 if installed. In Yosemite, it appears that you can set defaults to older apps. I set all my ".pages" apps to open in Pages '09 and quit all apps. No matter which Pages file I opened, they all oped in Pages '09 and not Pages 5.

Thought this was a interesting feature that may not be known.

 

[grahamperrin]

Default Apps (System Preferences); Safari 7 on Mavericks

Smart! Thanks.

Default Apps

I still use RCDefaultApp on Mavericks. I guess that it'll be equally effective on Yosemite.

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