Suffix mapping?!?

[natecook1000]

I'm having a rather odd problem -- a while ago I tarred and gzipped a few applications and when I uncompressed them, they just looked like the foldername.app (i.e., Photoshop looked like Photoshop.app). One of them (the first one I wanted to open) was an installer, so I got info on it and told it to open with Installer.app... (Bad idea, as it turns out.)

That worked for that one, but now all of my applications try to open using Installer.app. So I've had to delete Installer.app off my machine, and copy it back on only when I'm installing things.

Very annoying.

I want to find wherever OS X stores that suffix mapping: .app -> Installer.app and get rid of it, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere. Any clues?

Thanks!

 

[natecook1000]

Excellent! It turned out to be the com.apple.LaunchServices.plist file... I opened it up in BBEdit and found this inside the DICT block:


      <key>A;????.app</key>
      <array>
         <data>
         /////3hpbnM=
         </data>
         <string>com.apple.installer</string>
      </array>


Deleting it and re-logging in solved all the problems... Thank you!