'Open With' gone kind of crazy...
This is kind of a strange one...
I often do a 'control-click' when opening jpegs. I often want to open them in photoshop instead of preview if I want to mess around with the image.
Here's what's going on. It lists all the usual suspects (photoshop, preview, quicktime, etc), but also lists about 30 other options that I've never seen. They're mostly .exe options and the ones I've tried will open Adobe ImageReady and perform some alteration to the jpeg. Does anybody know if I can get these out of my 'Open With' list of options? Can I adjust this?
Any input would be great. Thanks in advance...
Hey BW --
Wish I had something to offer here, but I don't.
When did a "get info" on a jpeg to see what you're talking about, I could only find a way to add applications to the list of "recommended applications." Editing the list by deleting an app wasn't possible. And, while I don't have the situation you describe (as I don't have Photoshop), I did find duplicates of Graphic Converter, Netscape and Real Player in the list.
I don't know why the duplicates are there and I can't see any way to get rid of them. I looked throughout the support site and Mac Help and couldn't find anything on this, and my searches in Discussion turned up too much irrelevant stuff to make them effective.
-- JDee
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