Preview App Issues?

[florio]

Hi everyone,

need some help. I have recently done a complete clean install of Leopard. Ever since however, I somehow get two separate instances of Preview.app showing up in my doc when opening pdfs or photos. I only have one preview app in my applications folder and there doesn't seem to be a second one anywhere else. It is almost like in Windows when you have two of the same app running at the same time.

Any ideas?

Florio

 

[HLdan]

Okay, I'm trying to visualize what you are saying, are you saying that when you click on a PDF or JPEG that Preview's icon appears in the dock? Does it go away when you quit the PDF or JPEG?

 

[florio]

ok... this doesn't happen all the time, but this is what generally happens.

1. I open a pdf file and preview opens.
2. Preview.app icon goes into the dock.

3. I open another pdf file and a 2nd copy of preview opens.
4. A 2nd preview.app icon goes into the doc.

5. so now there are 2 preview.app icons in the doc side by side.

 

[florio]

some more details.

the second instance opens up when "right click" on a file inside an email from within mail.app. Then the list of applications of "open with" has more than one instance of preview.app?

this is screwy.

 

[florio]

photo of issue should be here