Right Click on a movie file shows a list of droplets

Hi, I for the life of me can't figure out where these droplets came from. I'm assuming they're droplets from my research. And I don't know how to get rid of them. If anybody knows, please tell me.


I have a Macbook pro M2 2023. Whenever I click on a movie file (.mov, .mp4, mxf, etc) and select open with it shows a list of names that I've have never seen before. A long list. After just trying to open a file with one of those names to see what it was, it said that it was unable to open because the droplet for the compressor need to be updated.


I don't have compressor and I don't know where these droplets came from and I don't know how to remove them. Does anybody know where droplets might be stored on your computer or how they may have transferred to my computer? Are they even on my computer?

The most important question is basically how can I remove them so that when I right click all I see are the programs that I can open the movie files with, not these droplets?


Thank you11


MacBook Pro (M2 Max, 2023)

Posted on Jul 5, 2023 5:13 AM

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Posted on Jul 6, 2023 12:10 AM

Here is a command you can enter into Terminal to reset the Launch Services database (this one single very long line; copy and paste to make sure that there is no typing mistake):


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


After it finishes, type


killall Finder




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Jul 6, 2023 12:10 AM in response to star125

Here is a command you can enter into Terminal to reset the Launch Services database (this one single very long line; copy and paste to make sure that there is no typing mistake):


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


After it finishes, type


killall Finder




Jul 6, 2023 5:12 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

OMG thank you Luis! That worked! I don't know why it happened, where it came from or even what the script above did to fix it, but I am extremely grateful! Thank you!! I attached the error message for reference for anyone else that might have this issue. Basically when I tried to open up the .mov file with the 2nd Unit droplet it gave this error.... see attached. The part that is odd is that I've never had compressor on this or any other computer. So not sure how I got those droplets or where they even came from (maybe the production server?). Anyway, thanks again Luis for taking the time to help. You rock!

Right Click on a movie file shows a list of droplets

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