Resetting the contextual ‘Open With’ menu in Mac OS X

07 Aug 2009 0 Comments

Mac OS X’s contextual (right-click) “Open With” menu displays a list of applications associated with and able to open the selected file(s). Occasionally this list (and the icons associated with specific filetypes) can become disorganized.

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To reset the contextual menu and Mac OS X’s icon-filetype associations, open a new Terminal window and enter the command below:

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

… then log out and back in again.

 

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