Double entry applications on "Open With Menu" in Snow Leopard

[M&M]

Hello,

I'm having a little bug on Snow Leopard and I wonder if any of you may have the solution to fix it.

When I choose a file and I go to the Open with menu, I see that there's a double entry for some applications. (Real Player, VLC)

Is there a way to clear this so it only shows one single entry of the applications and why does this happens?

Thank you.

 

[HLdan]

It's not a Snow Leopard bug, it also happens in Leopard and Tiger.

 

[mysterytramp]

Hello,

I'm having a little bug on Snow Leopard and I wonder if any of you may have the solution to fix it.

When I choose a file and I go to the Open with menu, I see that there's a double entry for some applications. (Real Player, VLC)

Is there a way to clear this so it only shows one single entry of the applications and why does this happens?

Thank you.

Search your hard drive. You probably have two copies of the software. Possibly one in the Applications folder and one in another folder inside the Applications folder.

mt

 

[M&M]

Search your hard drive. You probably have two copies of the software. Possibly one in the Applications folder and one in another folder inside the Applications folder.

mt

I did researched the hard drive.
There's no second location or duplicate app on it.

 

[lewis82]

The same thing happens to me in the Recent elements menu. But I'm sure too that I have only one Firefox.app.

 

[xUKHCx]

This isn't really a bug, I guess you have an external hard drive that you clone your internal drive to or use Time Machine on.

OS X keeps a record of applications and when you plug your external drive it records that the application is there and even though it is the same technical applciation it is on a different drive so there are two entries for it.

You can cleanup your Launch services database via applications such as Onyx or Cocktail or the terminal

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071102084155353

 

[M&M]

This isn't really a bug, I guess you have an external hard drive that you clone your internal drive to or use Time Machine on.

OS X keeps a record of applications and when you plug your external drive it records that the application is there and even though it is the same technical applciation it is on a different drive so there are two entries for it.

You can cleanup your Launch services database via applications such as Onyx or Cocktail or the terminal

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071102084155353

Thanks a lot.
I did install Cocktail and I performed the Cleanup Launch Services.
The duplicate files are gone now.