The Chromebook Files app has become quite powerful and feature-filled over the past few years. Not only has it gained the ability to display Linux files for those with Crostini enabled, and received new trash can and camera folders, it’s also become capable of saving files for offline use on an individual basis instead of forcing you to visit Drive on the web first.
With Google advertising Chromebooks to different types of consumers, and especially to creatives using their recent barrage of creativity-focused Perks and marketing materials, I imagine that many of you reading this will have more than just standard images and documents saved to your local or cloud storage. When opening these from the Chromebook Files app, the operating system is usually fairly intuitive in its ability to guess which app should handle which file type. However, that’s not always the case – especially in situations where you throw new file types at it. Some examples include uncommon audio file extensions, photoshop documents, and more. With that said, let’s take a quick look at how you can change the default application for each specific file type in order to improve your workflow!
