"Open with" pop-up menu application list editing

I have installed Adobe Photoshop CS2 on my iBook G4. When opening .jpg or other file with "Open with" pop-up menu there is alot of applications which gives only a long list for me. How to edit this list.

hi vienspatsmajas,
You can try using Zingg! to configure the "open with" menu
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12965&vid=130824
Lori

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For instance, while right clicking on a jpeg the "Open With" pop up displays Pixelmator, which is no longer installed, it also shows Photoshop Elements, but that version is on a backup disk, not the current disk, also there is no option to open in Apperture, which is installed and active.
Is there a way to remove old or unwanted applications and put in current applications into the Contextual Menu?

Yes, LaunchServices. These are only cache files but can get corrupted. Launch /Utilities/Terminal and copy & paste this at the command line to rebuild LaunchServices: (be sure to copy the entire line it's a scroll)
Code:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
Then press return. Wait until terminal returns to the command line. Quit Terminal. After that, log out and back in or restart. Let us know

Add apps to Open With in context menu

is it possible for example to add Preview to "Open With.." menu when I right click on Folder? because it's anoying to choose Preview every time when I click Other to achieve that Preview will create thumbnails of all pictures in that folder

V.K. wrote:
CyKi wrote:
is it possible for example to add Preview to "Open With.." menu when I right click on Folder?
preview can't open folders. it opens files. in general, you can't add anything to "Open with menu" by hand. the only way to force something to be there is to make it the default application for certain file type. this should already be the case with image files unless you've changed the default application to something other than Preview. to set a default application control-click on an image file and select 'get info". in the resulting popup go to "open with section and set it to open with the app of your choice. then click "change all".
Lastly, to quickly open all files in a given folder in preview drop that folder on Preview in the dock.
when you press CMD + O in Preview and select folder, Preview will open all pictures from the folder with their thumbnails

Is there a keyboard shortcut to open a pop-up menu in Numbers 3?

I have lots of spreadsheets with cells formatted as popup menus. I am accustomed to tabbing from cell to cell, and then tapping the spacebar to open the pop-up menu to select an option. Now it appaers that the only way to open a pop-up menu in Numbers 3 is to take my hand off the keyboard, mouse to the arrow button near the cell, click it, and then select an option. This is ridiculous. Has the shortcut changed, or is it just gone?

Hi ozzwladoman,
This is an old thread. Hitting the spacebar of course worked in Numbers 2, as noted in the thread to which you link.
But it didn't trigger the Pop-Up Menu in the first releases of Numbers 3. The spacebar trigger has been restored quite recently, I think in the April release of Numbers 3.2.
In general Pop-ups are much improved in Numbers 3 over Numbers 2.
SG

Is there a way to get ACR to appear in the "Open With" drop down menu?

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Is there a way to get Adobe Camera Raw to appear directly along with CS3 in the Mac's ( OS 10.4.11) "Open With" drop down menu?

If you installed ACR it in the right place, and are targeting the kind of file that ACR can handle, it should be there.
I have found that there are certain Tiff Scans that won't open in ACR but if you just Duplicate them in Bridge, and then target the Duplicate, they will then open in ACR.
At least they do so for me.

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Many 3rd party apps that I have used before now will not open with the alert "XYZ application cannot be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed" Why now since I updated Mavericks?

The format in which a developer has to sign his application in order for it to be recognized as signed has changed. Update the applications, wherever possible.
To make a one-time exception to the security policy, follow these instructions. They apply to Installer packages and other installable items as well as applications.

"Open With" accidentally set for application installers. How to reset?

Accidentally set "Open With" for an application installer to BBEdit and hit "change for all."
Now cannot launch installer, it wants to open with BBEdit or another application.
Is there a way to reset?

Solved. Problem was not actually with LaunchServices. I proved to myself that it was not LaunchServices by setting another filetype to open with BBEdit, then deleting LaunchServices, and seeing that filetype no longer open with BBEdit, while still having the problem. I should note that the problem was with a printer driver installer application, which I had set to open with BBEdit. (I was demonstrating to someone how you can set files to open with an application, not noticing I'd selected an installer applicaiton rather than a data-type file.) With no more LaunchServices.plist to delete, I still had the problem.
But here's what the problem ACTUALLY was: The installer had been posted to a Windows-based file server from a Mac using an AFP network protocol connection. I downloaded the file from the Windows-based server to another Mac using an SMB network protocol connection. As it happens, Resource Forks are encoded differently for SMB network connections than they are for AFP connections (and I am told for NFS or other protocols as well). So if you don't use the same network protocol connection to download the file as it was posted with, -you lose the Resource Fork. And in the case of this driver installer, the Resource Fork was critical, and so it could not launch correctly as I had downloaded it.
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What version is "the old Pages"?
What version of OSX?
What happens when you try and open an old document with the "old Pages"?
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After using shift command 4 and send to desktop,how can I had iphoto to the list "open With" to preview menu?

After using shift command 4 to send a photo to the desktop, how can I add iphoto to the list of"open with" menu ?

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I have CS5 and CS6 installed, and now I've also installed CS3 (because of problems with ps actions that does not work properly), and in the context menu "Open with", "Open" and "Edit" now starts CS3 instead of CS6.
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when choosing "Open with", "Select standard program", and browse/selecting the CS6 exe-file, then STILL the CS3 is displayed in context menu and the CS3 starts. It's like there is some assocciation from CS6 to CS3 that cannot be altered??
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And yes, all my PS versions are legit.

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Unwanted Firefox entry in the Open With Windows Explorer menu

Open Windows Explorer and right-click various file types. You'll see there's a submenu called "Open with" that allows you to choose a particular application. Firefox is listed for numerous file types it can't actually handle, like RAR and MKV.
Does anyone know why? I've never attempted to open those file types with Firefox, though I did download such files with Firefox. I can't find any bug reports about this, and the above seems like too little information to file a report.
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''the-edmeister wrote:''
There's something screwed up in Firefox 31 and 32 with regards to Firefox messing with Windows OS File Associations […]
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* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049521 Bug 1049521] - Be less aggressive about non-primary file type associations in Firefox on Windows
That's the bug report about Firefox inadvertently stealing the file association for PDFs. That didn't happen on my system. I also don't see how this could be related. The PDF association is set on install, and reinstalling Firefox didn't change the "Open with" list for the previously affected file types.
Then again, the patch on bug 1049521 touches the ''OpenWithList'' registry keys, which is what I manually cleaned up. It also handles more than PDFs: I spotted media file types like OG? and WEBM, but not MKV or any of the previously affected file types on my system.
''FredMcD wrote:''
Me thinks me smells a virus at work.
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Pop-up menu to list multiple time values (8:00 AM etc.) ?

I was looking at the option of using a pop-up menu to select times (8:00 AM etc.) from to keep from having to enter all the times in my spreadsheet manually. Has anyone done this before and is there a download or widget for this? Unfortunately for me, I would need it to be in increments of 5 minutes starting from 7AM to 7PM or so, which would be a tremendous amount of parameters added to a traditional pop-up menu.
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T25 wrote:
Thanks for the insight, it seems to make good sense to me with your process to create multiple pop-ups and/or sliders. Since I'm still new to iWork Numbers though, are the tables you illustrated in your reply saved in a separate spreadsheet to use as a reference for the pop-up in other, separate spreadsheets? Is that what LOOKUP is used for (to reference another sheet)?
My invoice has a single cell for an "IN" time and another for an "OUT" time; all incorporated to a fairly "busy" invoice that can't accommodate any additional cells in those areas.
Both tables are on the same sheet, but I placed them on separate tables on that sheet.
They don't have to be on separate tables, and they don't have to be on the same sheet, but they do have to be in the same document, as Numbers does not provide for linking to separate documents/files.
With the busy invoice in your case, you could place the popup and slider cells (two of each) on a separate table, and only the result cells on the same table as your invoice. The popups and sliders could go on the same table as the lookup array, but that table would then have to be both visible and unlocked.
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Placed on the same table as the rest of the invoice, you can still hide it simply by hiding the two columns containing the lookup information.
An alternate method, requiring no extra cells or tables would be to Use Insert Date and Time (in the Insert menu, or from the keyboard with shift-option-command-D ) to insert the date and time directly.
There are some complications with this which might make it unusable, depending on how many people need to be trained and how well they take to training. Insert Date and Time starts with the assumption that what you really want to do is insert the date. Changing its mind takes a couple of extra steps that must be done immediately, and each time.
1. Click on the cell to select it.
2. Go Insert > Date and Time (or press shift-option-command-D )
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5. Click outside the dialogue to dismiss it.
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Note that the Time, when inserted this way, will be the time that the insertion was done, and won't be rounded to the nearer five minutes.
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Regards,
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Will EC support setting default file type and Open With from file menu?

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=Ryan
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