Lee Warren 500

Q: Do I need to rebuild my desktop in OS X 10.9.5?

Since upgrading to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, I've had various quirks with files not finding applications correctly; e.g. if I right-click "open with" a JPEG file, select Photoshop, it then can not actually find the Photoshop application to open it ... I get a dialog box that says, "This application has been moved ... some settings need to be repaired", I click "repair now", but instead of opening with the Photoshop app already running, it opens a second instance of Photoshop (the same Photoshop app then shows in 2 places on the app icon bar). However, the file still won't open unless I then do "open" from the Photoshop drop-down menu and locate the file manually. Even though I had clicked "repair now", when I go back again later, the same problem repeats.

 

I know it's really an old OS Classic term, but I ask about "Do I need to rebuild my desktop in OS X 10.9.5", because repairing permissions and repairing the drive from the utility boot partition has no effect on this problem after trying that approach a couple of times. There must be some other system cache or library preferences file that needs to be cleared or repaired. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), null

Posted on Mar 10, 2016 6:04 AM

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Q: Do I need to rebuild my desktop in OS X 10.9.5?

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  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Mar 10, 2016 6:15 AM in response to Lee Warren 500
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    Mar 10, 2016 6:15 AM in response to Lee Warren 500

    It really sounds like a launchservices issue to me. Here's an older link but you may wish to see if there's something newer with reference to the OS version you are using.  I believe the free utility Onyx has a button for rebuilding this and may be one of the rare cases where I would recommend using such a tool.  As always, back up first.

     

    http://thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html

  • by Lee Warren 500,

    Lee Warren 500 Lee Warren 500 Mar 10, 2016 11:15 AM in response to Limnos
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    Mar 10, 2016 11:15 AM in response to Limnos

    Hi, thanks for the idea, but it didn't work. I tried OnyX, running the launchservices repair among the options, but it had no effect on the result ... same error message when right-clicking to open Photoshop. Actually, I may be in worse trouble, as I am getting the spinning beach balls delays with other finder functions ... hopefully that will go away once it runs for a while ... I would not want to have to restore from Time Machine if I did not need to!

  • by starsong1966,

    starsong1966 starsong1966 Aug 20, 2016 10:10 AM in response to Lee Warren 500
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    Aug 20, 2016 10:10 AM in response to Lee Warren 500

    Hi Lee,

    I'm just now seeing your post from March 2016, however if you are still having a problem you could try this option. Open Disk Utility and select your hard drive and click on "Repair disk permissions".