duplicate programs listed in "Open With" menu

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duplicate programs listed in "Open With" menu

Whenever I control-click a file and want to select "Open With", there are duplicate programs listed. For example, if I want to open an AIFF file, QuickTime 7.6.2 shows up twice in the list along with iTunes, WaveBurner (a Logic Pro program) and other programs all showing up twice. Even another version of QuickTime (6.0.3) is listed.

Anyone else have ing this problem? Anyone know how to fix it? Thanks

Posted on Aug 18, 2009 10:24 AM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Aug 18, 2009 10:53 AM in response to cscscs

Hi, this should cure it...

Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then...

Resetting Launch Services...

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

Reboot.

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Answer 2

K.S.

Level 4

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Aug 18, 2009 5:34 PM in response to cscscs

You can probably fix it by just rebuilding the Launch Services database using OnyX (Maintenance tab > Reset tab: select "Rebuild") http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html

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