This stupid bug has annoyed me for quite some time, and as quite a few other sufferers I have lodged a bug report with apple. However, fixing problems with FileVault obviously is not the highest priority for the apple developer team. To my frustration. Using an encrypted home folder prevents Mac OS to read the user’s customizations regarding file and MIME type associations. The suggested workaround is to reset the LaunchServices database. Unfortunately, that doesn’t help much in most cases.
Lucky for me, one brave programmer came up with a much cleverer solution: Martin Kopischke wrote a little shell script called GoodCompany which resolves the problem. Kudos to Martin!
As a side remark, the layout of this blog and of my homepage were strongly inspired by the layout of the GoodCompany documentation file.