I have several AI tools generating .md documents for me that I import into Bear. This has always worked flawlessly. Now Bear won’t import them and if I open them with Bear directly they appear as attachments in the note.
This only fails for .md files. HTML imports cleanly.
Feels like this happened during the update for OS27 that you all put out.
I tested on a machine that has Mac OS 27 installed and this is not an issue there
This is a work machine - so I cannot upgrade to OS 27 until Enterprise Technology has cleared the way - which could be a while. Import from Folder does work (as does the scripted callback method) but would love to see this resolved. I use Bear across my device family.
Same thing here, and I’ve got a detail that might help narrow it down.
Bear 2.10 (14800), macOS 26.6. Same symptom: opening a .md file with Bear gives me a blank note with the file hanging off it as an attachment.
What surprised me is that if I copy the exact same file to .txt and open that, it imports perfectly. Full text, markdown rendered, title picked up from the leading # heading. Only the extension is different. So the text import path itself looks fine, it’s specifically .md that’s getting routed to the attachment handler.
I went down the file-association rabbit hole first assuming it was something on my end, and it isn’t. net.daringfireball.markdown still conforms to public.plain-text → public.text → public.data, and rebuilding the Launch Services database didn’t change anything. Making Bear the default app for .md didn’t either.
It also fails identically through every route I’ve tried: double-click, Open With, and Bear’s own “Send to Bear” item in the Services menu.
Started for me on Sep 16. The x-callback-url workaround is holding me over, but it’d be great to get Open With working again.
Thanks for reporting this issue. We were able to replicate the issue on macOS 26.6, but we are currently unsure about what exactly caused this problem. What we see happening by debugging Bear’s code doesn’t match what is reported here. It seems all markdown files have a public.markdown UTI under macOS 26.6. This might be caused by Bear being compiled with XCode 27 or by macOS 26.6 itself.
However, we have found a workaround and will be available with the next update.
Not to drag this thread on, I started using Bear again after a few weeks (now on v3.0 (14827)) on MacOS 15.8 and I’m seeing the same issue. Dont know how related the OS build is so wanted to mention it anyway..