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User profile for user: Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Author
User level: Level 1
55 points

"Open with..."

I have the following problem: right clicking on a file and selecting "Open with..." displays after some wait ( and the spinning beach ball )

a long list of possible programs BUT each one numerous times.


How do I remove the the repetitions ?

Somebody suggested to use the following terminal command but it didn't help:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/L aunchServices.framework/Versions/Current/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain system -domain local -domain user

OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Oct 28, 2012 10:55 AM

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User profile for user: Bad News52
Bad News52
User level: Level 1
17 points

Dec 11, 2012 10:34 PM in response to Michael Schulz

I am having the same problem and it is very annoying and frustrating the insanity out of me.

Been going on for like 2 months now. Any time I click open with i get the spinning beach ball and slower is slow to respond and not acting like normal.


I tried everything including running the frameworks thing but I cant get it to go away.


Should i start up in disk recovery mode and re-install my OS?


Will this delete all my application preferences/settings and make me enter new serials again?

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