From time to time the \u201cOpen With\u201d option in OSX will get out of sync and begin showing duplicate icons or even start a different application than expected. Installing, removing or updating applications often causes this. On the Mac the associations between applications and file types are saved in a database called \u201cLaunch Services database\u201d. Luckily it\u2019s relative easy to fix this problem by rebuilding the database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On most installations of OS X 10.5.x and later you can rebuild the database by running a few simple commands from \u201cTerminal\u201d. First open \u201cTerminal\u201d (If you don\u2019t know how to open \u201cTerminal\u201d hold down \u201cCommand\u201d and press \u201cSpace\u201d once, type in \u201cTerminal\u201d in the text field that opens and chose the \u201cTerminal\u201d app). Copy the following code to the command line and hit enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mac will then rebuild the database and restart \u201cFinder\u201d. This can take anything from a few seconds to several minutes depending on your system. When completed the \u201cOpen With\u201d option should be up to date. That\u2019s it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several other websites recommend the OSX utilities Cocktail<\/a> and OnyX<\/a> if you fell uncomfortable working with the Terminal using raw commands. Besides fixing this problem they also provide several other options for adjusting and tuning your Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From time to time the \u201cOpen With\u201d option in OSX will get out of sync and begin showing duplicate icons or even start a different application than expected. Installing, removing or updating applications often causes this. On the Mac the associations between applications and file types are saved in a database called \u201cLaunch Services database\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/CoreServices.framework\/Versions\/A\/Frameworks\/
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