“The application “%@” can’t be opened.” However doing “open with” and selecting default app works

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Using macOS Sierra, when I double click a file that is supposed to open with Atom I get this message:

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However if I right click and choose the default option it works fine:

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Best Answer

Fixed by uninstalling atom (using appCleaner) and then reinstalling most recent version.