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MuskyHunter Author

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Books is suddenly opening all my PDF's. How to stop?

Books is finding all of the PDFs on my iMac. I just want books to show the PDF files I add to books, not EVERYTHING. Because of this it is nearly impossible to manage my collections and select files to synchronize with my phone and iPad. I have looked and tried solutions already posted but none of them work. Changing which app opens pdf files does nothing (Preview is used for opening all my pdf files already). This is a very cumbersome problem for me. Hopefully someone has a real fix.

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 13.2

Posted on Mar 10, 2023 2:49 PM

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MuskyHunter Author

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17 points

Posted on Mar 11, 2023 11:46 AM

I have more than 500 pdfs on my computer. I explicitly added about 20 to iBooks. At some point, when I open books, ALL of the pdfs on my computer show up in the books app. This is something fairly new; I have been using books for years without this happening.

As to explaining how books is finding pdfs, I have no clue other than I see all of my pdfs in Books.

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