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multiple entries in Mac OS X contextual menu
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:37 pm
by winnall
I use Oxygen 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.7. I have gone through a number of updates of both Oxygen and Mac OS X. For some reason, when I call up the contextual menu for a document which Oxygen can handle, under "open with" I see four entries for Oxygen. Is this a well-known phenomenon? How can I get rid of the superfluous entries?
Steve
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:02 am
by dsewell
I haven't seen this with oXygen, but I have the exact same problem with Adobe Acrobat. In that case I think the Adobe installer program may be guilty. I don't think I've ever seen this with a program that you install by moving it into the Applications folder.
I don't know what the fix is to get rid of the extra entries, unfortunately.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:50 am
by Dan
You can try to unregister the applications. Finder will register them again as you browse the directory that contains the application.
From a terminal give the following commands:
# To re-register the extensions, use:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user -dump
Then restart your computer.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:02 pm
by dsewell
Thanks for that tip! It worked perfectly.