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Strange Snow Leopard menu

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hackum

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Dec 1, 2009
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Has anyone seen this before? When I go to the Open With submenu, it looks all messed up like this. OS is Snow Leopard on last gen MBP.

Thanks!
 

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I havent either. The problem is when I try to open with a .txt or another file which can be associated with more apps. then it looks a real mess.
 

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Have you restarted your computer, or at least "force quit" and restarted the Finder

I think maybe you need to find the Finder preferences file and trash it
 
I have restarted a few times, I will try the Finder thing now. Could it be some issue with Adobe CS4 Suite ...
 
I think you need to rebuild your launch services. OnyX can do it, and I think pulling com.apple.LaunchServices.plist from ~/Library/Preferences will do the job too.
 
The problem was Adobe CS4 ... I dont know why and how it happened as I use the same software on a Mac Pro with no side effects ... well done Adobe.
 
The problem was not CS4, I tried rebuilding launch scripts, verfying and repairing disk permissions ... non of this helped. Also this problem does not appear all the time. For example I click one time and the submenu looks ok, I click another time and it is all messed up.

I dont know what to do now ...
 
No, it did not work, unfortunately...
But since I did it, the problem occurred only once, I haven't been able to replicate it a 2nd time... so weird.
 
May be it worked ... I am so confused. I haven't been able to replicate the issue. What might have been the problem?
 
Sometimes plists can become corrupted, so trashing the bad one will force the app to make a fresh one. Let us know if you see this again.
 
enter this command into Terminal to relaunch your LaunchServices.

Code: 
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -rfv -all user, system, local
 
richthomas said:
enter this command into Terminal to relaunch your LaunchServices.

Code: 
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -rfv -all user, system, local
Click to expand...

That's great, but you need to delete LaunchServices' cache too. Onyx can do that for you.

Be aware that deleting the cache will break all application bindings, so you'll have to slowly rebuild what opens what.
 
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