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danakm

macrumors regular
Original poster
Apr 9, 2006
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2
Wonderland
A couple of days ago while trying to open an image via right click>open with I noticed my mac is listing some applications twice. Any ideas as to what might be causing this/how to fix it? No, they aren't duplicated when you go to the Apps folder, only when clicking a file to choose what app to use to open it :confused:

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tkermit

macrumors 68040
Feb 20, 2004
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Executing the following in Terminal will rebuild the Launch Services Database, and should fix your problem.

Code:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -all local,system,user

Quit other applications before executing the command, and restart the Finder afterwards.
 

danakm

macrumors regular
Original poster
Apr 9, 2006
122
2
Wonderland
Executing the following in Terminal will rebuild the Launch Services Database, and should fix your problem.

Code:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -all local,system,user

Quit other applications before executing the command, and restart the Finder afterwards.

Thank you! :D
 
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