MacOS – How to set permanent default applications on El Capitan

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Every time I restart my mac book pro, all my settings of default applications change to factory default applications. For eg, I set adobe acrobat reader DC as my default PDF viewer, sublime text as default text editor and google chrome as default browser but on next restart/power on, the default applications change back to preview, textedit and safari.

How can I make my changes permanent and prevent this change from happening?

Right now, for setting default apps, I right click on file -> Get Info -> Open With -> Change All
But this has to be done on every power on/restart.

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Never face this, but I would say to delete the /users//library/preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist file where is your username

Then, define a preferred app for your PDFs, shutdown, restart and check

Mavericks (10.9) and earlier

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices \
    LSHandlers -array-add \
    '{LSHandlerContentType=public.plain-text;LSHandlerRoleAll=com.sublimetext.3;}'

Yosemite (10.10) and later

Use com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure \
    LSHandlers -array-add \
    '{LSHandlerContentType=public.plain-text;LSHandlerRoleAll=com.sublimetext.3;}'

Remember to restart to pick up the changes.

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