When I right click on a JPG file I'm presented with 41 choices to open it with. Preview is the default but sometimes I want to open it with Photoshop CS.

I read about trashing the com.apple.LaunchService in the user Library but all that did was delete icons from the list. The I read about a Terminal command & ran that but it didn't work because it couldn't find the com.apple.LaunchService file.

Then I searched the forum here & came across a script posted by Tuqqer & ran that then restated the computer & I still have a bloated Open With menu.

I also read about going into the Contents package of each application & deleting individual file types but that seems might tedious. There's GOT to be an easier way.

I would NEVER open a JPG with Real Player or Internet Explorer or even QuickTime. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

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Oy. Same boat. I've found it's even worse on my backup server. It's a PPC Leopard machine but it has all the apps listed from all the machines that get backed up to it. Which gets really annoying because then basic files want to open with apps like Parallels by default.

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It may be OK, but I have my doubts.

What system have you used it with?

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Bill

Carpe Vino!

Hardly an elegant solution but it is simple: put the icon of the program you want to use to open on the dock (its probably already there if you use it a lot) and drag the image icon over to the app icon on the dock. I suppose that isn't much better than right clicking and scrolling down through a long list, but you may prefer it to right-click-scroll until something better comes along.

I think I used Onyx to rebuild the LaunchServices database to do this.

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