How do I manage the "open in" menu?

How do I manage the "open in" menu?
I know it's limited to 10 apps.

You really can't manage it. Thre is no feature or settings that allows you to manage it. As you use Open In on the iPad, the compatible apps for that file type will appear in the Open In menu. The more that you choose a certain app for the file type, the faster it will move up to the top of the list - IIRC.
Other than that, there is no way to control it or remove or add apps in the Open In menu.

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Can someone please help me out? I'm working with OSX 10.9.4. My question is simple! I would like to clear out the "Open With" menu! I just received a new Version of Photoshop and now I have two versions in the open with menu, along with others that I will never use.

Rebuild LaunchServices Database
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt paste in the following command in its entirety:
find /System/Library/Frameworks -type f -name "lsregister" -exec {} -kill -seed -r \;
Press RETURN. Wait for the Terminal prompt to return after which you can quit the Terminal.

How can I shorten the "Open With" menu?

Hi -
When I Control-Click on a file, say one with an HTML extension, and move down to "Open with" I see a list of about 24 apps - only 4 of which are of interest to me for opening this HTML file. If I right-click an XML file - the apps I'm looking for are either Dreamweaver or BBEdit - and they are way down the list of candidates.
PSD files give me the same unweildy results. (I've got old versions of Photoshop, Flash, Dashcode, Quicktime, Illustrator and many more on that contextual list - all apps irrelevant for my work on PSD).
I tried using "Get Info" on a PSD, selected the latest Photoshop from the list of "Open with:" and clicked "Change All..." but that didn't narrow down the list very much at all - not even on that one particular file. I still have TextWrangler, Quicktime Player 7, Dashcode, ColorSync Utility, 3 old versions of Photoshop, 3 old versions of Illustrator to name just a few apps that I wouldn't pick.
I found out the hard way that I cannot discard old versions of Adobe applications. The new ones will not work without their ancestors on the same drive.
Its not just Adobe apps anyway. After all - Textwrangler to open a PSD??? How was THAT association made?
Is there a way to narrow the "Open With" contextual menu list?
TIA your experise.
J2

I'm sure this is stored in some .plist file somewhere, but this is really more a generic Mac question, so asking it on a Mac forum is more likely to yield any answers...
Mylenium

TA24770 How can I reset the "Open With" menu?

Any help?

Hello,
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions...
Reset Launch Services...
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html#Anchor-Reset-47857
Reboot.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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I have recently installed CC 2014, and uninstalled my CC version. When I go to a jpeg, or any image file in windows explorer, I right-click and "open with" and it isn't listed on my program list to open the file with. I click on "browse programs", find the exe file in adobe-photoshop cc2014 folder and click OK, and it just goes back to the open with menu with no option for photoshop.
Any ideas on how I can get it on that list, so I can open these files from the file location, instead of opening up photoshop and then searching for the file location within photoshop?
Also, I don't have any problems opening up the pictures from within photoshop, just within windows explorer.

I'm having a similar problem, but only with jpg's. I have PS CS6, CC, and CC 2014. Other image file formats function normally with regard to the "open with" list. PS CC 2014 appears on the list. But with jpg's only PS CC appears on the "open with" list and 2014 can't be added by the browsing for it.
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How do i disable the open/save image dialog box in firefox? I want to directly save the image file to the drive without clicking on save option everytime when saving an image. I'm using firefox ver 35.0.1 for windows 7.

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Does anyone know how I can remove an item from the "open with" menu?

You could try removing the quicktime .pkg files from the receipts folder in the root library.
The system has to go somewhere to determine eligible applications it can use to open a file.
Each application would contain its base settings in its receipts file.
Once you delete the receipt you should delete the application and reinstall it.
The reinstall will write a new receipts file.
The receipts file is used by your system when it repairs disk permissions.
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For example if you take a .png file and click on it and look at what can open it you may get a long list.
If you choose "other" from the get info "open with" menu and have acrobat reader installed in applications, it will show as an application you can choose.
That application, however, is not in the drop down list.
If you choose acrobat reader and apply it to the file type, it will show as the default.
If you then choose another application in the list and apply, Acrobat Reader disappears from the list.
The system only shows files in the list that advertise to the system that they can read the file type.
You have a system which is populating the list with legitimate programs that are compatible with the advertised file type.
It is reading that advertisement for the quicktime application somewhere.
The configuration is written to each file individually, you can choose to have a single file associated with a particular application or have it apply to all files of that type.
Check in Spotlight for a copy of the application in another location.

Paralles and the "open with" menu

Can anyone advise me on how to remove PC applications installed in Parallel
appearing in the "open with" menu within osx.
With most files there is no problem, but using open with in Mail gives a list of
apps and no idea which ones are OSX apps or PC apps.
Thanks in advance

I was under the impression that one reason to use Parallels rather than bootcamp was precisely for that reason, that one can run apps in both systems at the same time.
If a file can be opened with either XP or Leopard apps, then it seems to me both should show up in the "open with" list since they are both available.
With Parallels, XP is just one more app running in Leopard, AFAIK.
If you can exclude Parallels from SpotLight search and then rebuild the data base it might work.
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Could you give some suggestions on the below:
How to bring in the Open Sales Orders while performing Sales Order Conversion in R12.
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I am trying to use the uti's given in the apple docs but just unable to do it however its working perfect for pdf and rtf files.
please help needed urgent.

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