Weird “Open With Contextual menu” repeated items
Listener Charles wrote about a “Weird” problem he was having when he went to uses his “open as” contextual menu.
It seems that every time I right-click on something and do the “open with…” option, there’s always double, triple, or quadruple programs of the same thing that pop up to choose from. So what should be a 4-5 applications option, becomes a 12-25 application choice. I can’t seem to figure out why, first I figured it was maybe because i’m mounting a BACKUP of my computer (at times) and that would be the case but the problem still persists.
Just so happens I had run into this problem a while back and had an answer for him. Thought some of you might need this as well, and it’ shard to desribe verbally. If you need to clear “Open With Contextual menu”, you can use the following Terminal command to rebuild your LaunchServices database. That should take care of it for you. I run this command as an automator script about once a month.
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister \
-kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
Get the script here
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