February 20, 2013

HOWTO Fix Duplicates in the Open With Menu

Tired of duplicate apps in your Mac’s “Open With” menu? Use this simple terminal alias to clean up Launch Services and fix the clutter in seconds.

Add this to your ~/.bashrc

# Quick way to rebuild the Launch Services database and get rid

`of duplicates in the Open With submenu.`

alias fixopenwith=/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Then run:

$ fixopenwith

From your terminal.

Thanks Getting rid of Open With duplicates – All this for the tip!