Cleaned Open With menu, now can't mount images

I just cleaned up the "Open With" contextual menu using a Terminal command suggested in another thread. Now that menu is much shorter and everything is fine, except with some formats, which don't seem to have a default application. Not sure if it's an expected issue.
Specifically, when trying to open a sparsebundle image using the Finder, I got this message: "There is no default application specified to open the document "xyz.sparsebundle". What is the default app to open/mount sparsebundled images, and where to find it? I can still mount those images directly by using Disk Utility, but not in the Finder.
Maybe a restart would solve most of these missing default apps?
Message was edited by: rolandomerida

V.K., you've saved the day. Thank you!
This is what I did: First, I trashed a launch-something plist, following an Apple support document, listed in the same thread about clearing this contextual menu. I emptied the trash. As I couldn't see any result (maybe I should wait longer), I did the Terminal thing too. After a minute or so, it was done. Maybe it was that?
Anyway, it's solved now. Thanks again.
JJ

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