QuickTip: Clean up duplicate entries in Moutian Lion's "Open with" Menu
Have you been annoyed by duplicate entries in Mountain Lion's "Open with" Menu?
Join us for a quick tip, taking back control of your "Open with" menu.
Duplicate entries in the “Open With” contextual menu always seem to build up.
Looking at my menu today I had 14 evernote options when I right clicked on the document. I'm not really sure why this is but I believe whenever you update an application it adds it self to the menu again. If anyone has any information as to why this works the way it does I would love to know. Is it a bug, is it intended to work this way and why?
Either way I went ahead and creating an Automator script to help me control my "Open With" menu. If this frustrates you as well take the steps below to taking back control.
- Run "Automator"
- select "Application"
- "Run Applescript"
- Paste Code
- Play/Run script to finalize
- Save as Application
- Done.
Now just run the new application then restart Finder to control the menu clutter.
on run {input, parameters}
do shell script"/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user"
return input end run
