How to Make Clean-up the "Open With" Menu of your Mac by Using the right-click/control-click of a file
The “Open With” menu of your Mac will get when you right-click/control-click a file in the Finder window, It may become cluttered with time containing duplicate entries or when stale ones pointing to the applications that are no longer installed on your Apple computer. Here we have an example:
The “Open With” menu of your Mac is messy and filled with applications that you won't use for a long time, you can easily clean it up by rearranging the Launch Services database with a simple Terminal command.
Now Open the Terminal app on your Mac and then switch to the Launch Services. using the “cd” command of framework folder and then run the “lsregister” command to rebuild the database.
$ cd /System/Library/Frameworks
$ cdCoreServices. framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices. framework/Support
$ ./lsregister -kill -r -all local, system, user; killall Dock;
It means that all the erroneous entries are removed and the cleaned up “Open With” menu of the Mac now looks like. I no longer have to scroll through that confusing array of applications so I no longer use.
If the Terminal commands are not in your forte, you can always download a GUI applications for example Onyx to rebuild the Launch Services and clean up the menu.
The “Open With” menu of your Mac will get when you right-click/control-click a file in the Finder window, It may become cluttered with time containing duplicate entries or when stale ones pointing to the applications that are no longer installed on your Apple computer. Here we have an example:
The “Open With” menu of your Mac is messy and filled with applications that you won't use for a long time, you can easily clean it up by rearranging the Launch Services database with a simple Terminal command.
Now Open the Terminal app on your Mac and then switch to the Launch Services. using the “cd” command of framework folder and then run the “lsregister” command to rebuild the database.
$ cd /System/Library/Frameworks
$ cdCoreServices. framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices. framework/Support
$ ./lsregister -kill -r -all local, system, user; killall Dock;
It means that all the erroneous entries are removed and the cleaned up “Open With” menu of the Mac now looks like. I no longer have to scroll through that confusing array of applications so I no longer use.
If the Terminal commands are not in your forte, you can always download a GUI applications for example Onyx to rebuild the Launch Services and clean up the menu.
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