[SOLVED] Can't stop VLC opening jpegs (new behaviour)

edzell · Post by **edzell** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:42 pm

Mint mate 17.3: I have VLC installed for viewing videos, and Irfanview for still pictures (with all relevant file associations selected.) Until today this has worked well but now, without warning, if I select (click) a jpeg in my file manager, it opens in VLC instead of Irfan. I can find no way to stop this and get back to my previous - preferred - file association settings. Under VLC's preferences I see no function for setting associations. I've tried un- & re-installing VLC (with reboot) to no avail, as well as disabling & re-enabling the Irfan file associations.

I think the change happened after I clicked on a file with an unfamiliar extension. It opened & ran in VLC.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Edzell.

wallaroo · Post by **wallaroo** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:47 pm

Easiest way is to right-click on any jpg file and select 'Properties' then 'Open With'.
From there you can manage the associations by adding or removing apps, and also set the default app.

edzell · Post by **edzell** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 8:14 pm

Thanks Wallaroo; going via a file's properties menu did the trick. Can't think why VLC had suddenly become the default.

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