Open-With Filebot Functionality No Longer Working in v5.2.3 MacOS arm64

[tnirjp1]

Selecting file(s) and then right-clicking for context menu selection of "Open With....FileBot" no longer populates the selected file(s) in the "Original Files" window when FileBot opens.

[rednoah]

Did that ever work? Which version?


Open with FileBot works on Windows and Linux because the selected files are passed as argument array into the startup function. However, macOS doesn't pass selected files as argument array, so that's why it doesn't work when first launching FileBot with a set of files.


FileBot does register a file handler, but AFAIK it only works if FileBot is already running, i.e. you must start FileBot first, after which you can then add files to the running FileBot instance via Open with FileBot or by dropping files onto the FileBot dock icon.



EDIT:

Strangely enough, when a *.psm license file is selected, then Open with FileBot and double-click does work. I have no idea how / why macOS handles one file type differently from another.


EDIT 2:

Looks like lazy-initialisation startup optimisations in 5.2.3 might cause issues where file events are ignored if they arrive too early in the startup sequence.


EDIT 3:

Fixed with FileBot r11015.