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Right click the file and choose information and choose to always open this file with
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Go to the
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There you go, you can now double click it so reset the Spotlight location
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Optional: Uncomment line for the
useCountto prevent Spotlight to forget that you already used it
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Save fjcero/7fa42662d4bad18492aed28e6ee43a01 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Reset Spotlight Location (Fix for OS X 10.11 El Capitan)
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| # Delete all information saved by Spotlight | |
| defaults delete com.apple.Spotlight | |
| # Restart Spotlight | |
| killall Spotlight | |
| # Uncomment to prevent Spotlight to always introduce itself as new | |
| # defaults write com.apple.Spotlight useCount 5 | |
| exit 0 |
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