Comments on: Remove Duplicates from the “Open With” Right-Click Menu in Mac OS X

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:55:48 +0000

I’ll second Eric’s tip about Onyx:
http://tinyurl.com/d4dxnz8

But this is a great way to do it via the Terminal.

By: Svet

Svet — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:01:20 +0000

Nice, Thanks!

By: Ev

Ev — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:47:43 +0000

Thanks for the Automator tip. Gotta love all the power you get in Mac OS X right out of the box.

By: Rich W.

Rich W. — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:35:48 +0000

Love this tip, as a large “Open With” menu would cause my contextual menu to hang a bit as the entire menu loaded. This is difficult to avoid given the natural path the cursor has to travel. For a simple png file, my menu was reduced from 39 items to a faster-loading 19.

However, my Firefox is still showing 7 duplicates. Any idea what Firefox is doing differently than other apps to cause this? Any other ideas on how to stop Firefox from showing so many versions in “Open With”?

Firefox supplies versions very often, sometimes twice a month, so their app list will soon become quite long.

By: Monty

Monty — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:09:30 +0000

Restart fixed my issue.

By: Monty

Monty — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:38:30 +0000

After I ran this script some features of other programs stopped working. For instance, when I download something in Google Chrome and click the icon that appears on the lower bar of the browser nothing happens.

When I attempt to click any type of link within apps that are supposed to bring up the location of something in the Finder, nothing happens. I have to manually navigate to the location of the file.

Not sure if there is a reverse for this command, or if there is a way to fix my issue, but I mind this more than I mind having a few duplicates in the contextual menu.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:49:32 +0000

I ran this script and it worked for me – duplicates were removed. However, it also removed some that I use regularly (programs runnings within Parrallels).

Any idea how to add entries to the open with list?

By: Adriano

Adriano — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:40:38 +0000

I build a small app to put on Startup items, follow the link to anyone who wants:

https://github.com/AdrianoMartins/FixOpenWithMenu/raw/master/Binary/FixOpenWithMenu.app.zip

By: ice

ice — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:31:44 +0000

Thanks, works great!

By: C

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:54:16 +0000

Thank you! very helpful

By: BT

BT — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:28:25 +0000

Just acquired this issue this past week and am glad I came across this tip. Thanks!!!

By: Br.Bill

Br.Bill — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:45:16 +0000

This has been bugging me for a while — ever since I upgraded to Lion and now through Mountain Lion. Thanks for the fix.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:42:42 +0000

An even easier way to do this is to use Onyx, the free utility. It will rebuild the database for files and associated apps by simply clicking a button.

By: jyoseph

jyoseph — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:24:31 +0000

This is killer! That always bugged the heck out of me.

I used automator to turn this into a service: http://i.imgur.com/dO4j9P2.png

So now I can go to my top menu e.g. Finder > Services > Remove Open With Dupes

Thanks for the great tip!

By: thnx

thnx — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:43:18 +0000

I was waiting for this command fix from a long time!!!, Thanks!!