Aperture Plug-ins

Hi there!
Running the latest version of Aperture under Mountain Lion.
Whenever I go to edit a file in Aperture using 'edit with plug-ins' I see a whole load of old plug-in names which I'm sure I've binned ages ago.
Is there anyway I can go through and delete the names?
For example, I bought the new Nik suite from Google recently. Installed. Working brilliantly. I deleted the old Nik suite yet in still shows up in the menu under 'edit with plug-ins'.
Help much appreciated!
Regards!
Mark.

Computer library solved the problem. I just remembered. Looking in the other library!
But thanks for replying!
Cheers!
M.

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