Ask OS X Daily: How do I force open a file?
Ask OS X Daily, How to, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks - May 22nd, 2007 - 3 Comments
Reader Mathew Prairen asks a common question about opening files that has a remarkably simple answer:
“I have a few image files from my PC that Preview refuses to open, is there any way I can force Preview to open these images?”
If you want to force open any file with virtually any program, simply hold down the Command+Option keys while dragging the file onto the applications icon. There’s no guarantee the program will like the file you are forcing it to open, but it will try anyway.
I just double click the file if I want to open it, call me old fashioned
Can’t you just use:
open -a SomeApp somepeskyunassociatedfile
?
[...] was corrupted. I remembered this trick from a post a few years back by our very own David Mendez, how to force open a file in Mac OS X, and this actually will work with nearly every application and file, so if you want to force an [...]