<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">The problem is a corrupt Launch Services database which can be reset by the following command in Terminal</span></span><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/Current/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">and relaunching the Finder.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">The solution is </span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">discussed in more detail here: </span></font><a href="http://tidbits.com/article/13485">TidBITS: Eliminate Duplicates in the Open With Submenu</a> and also an older (2010) discussion here: <a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=950305">Right-click open with... showing duplicate apps? - MacRumors Forums</a><div><div><br></div><div>I had the same problem and like Adam at Tidbits hadn't looked into it, but was happy to see a solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Glad to be able to contribute as I've always been on the other side.</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div>Greg</div><div><br></div> </div> <br><div><div>On Jan 15, 2013, at 5:08 AM, K.-Michael Aye wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>the recent updates (I'm on the nightly builds track) keep being registered as different apps in whereever MacOSX tracks if an app can deal with a certain kind of file.<br>So, when I do right-click->Open With, there are 4 entries for TextMate now.<br>How can I clean this up?<br><br>Thx,<br>Michael<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>