Clear and Repopulate Finder’s “Open With” Menu

When opening up files in Finder, particularly documents or pictures, you may often want to use an application other than the default one. To do this, you simply Control-Click on the file and choose the application you want from under the “Open With” menu. Sometimes this list contains useless applications that you deleted long ago, which makes the very useful tool slower and less effective.

Getting rid of old applications from this automatically populate list is pretty simple, and is done by simply deleting a single file. This file is located in Home/Library/Preferences, and is called “com.apple.LaunchServices”. Simply locate this file and delete it, and the list should be fixed.

[Via MacApper]


 
 

One Response to “Clear and Repopulate Finder’s “Open With” Menu”

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    Michael
    OK, but how do I add an application to the "Open With" menu? I'd like to be able any text file in Smultron as an option, be it encoded in ASCII, ISO-8859-1 (aka ISO-Latin-1), utf-8, or utf-16.

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