Open with... shows uninstalled program

This has been nagging at me for quite some time now... I always thought that it was an issue with some far-out bit of gnome I'd never heard of, but I just removed 80% of gnome (keeping only a few applications and libraries needed to run them), and yet it persists. The problem, specifically, is that when I use Nautilus's right click menu and select "Open with...", I am presented with the option to run an application using Wine. I no longer have Wine, however, and it's begun to really bother me. How, exactly, do I go about removing these little treasures from my context menus?
(In short, "Silly context menu, I no longer have Wine." Watdo.)

Well, then. There went 15 files I'd never realized existed. Thanks! I had no clue about any local .desktop file store, even though I've been through .local countless times.

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I cannot uninstall Firefox with the uninstall program routine in the Control Panel and the Mozilla uninstall helper.exe program will not run either. How do I completely uninstall Firefox so I can make a clean reload?
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Every time Firefox opened
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There are registry settings when you install the application builder, and probably an association is made in the registry to open your application and have it spawn the runtime engine of the correct version. However, as the Windows Registry is the most obsolete piece of software junk on the planet, and so chock full of mysteries, incosistencies, and well, a whole list of things that I could complain about, I cannot say for certain what registry settings are added/changed when you do an installation.
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On
ce you have deleted the folder, any remaining registry settings left over will be added to the rather large list of leftover registry entries from other applications that are unistalled/deleted. The truth of the matter is that I have NEVER seen an application completely remove all of itself, or its registry entries. I don't even know if uninstallation removes ANY registry entries.
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[Mac OS X: Double-Clicking a File Opens the Wrong Application|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2291]
*Changing the application used to open all files of a certain kind*
1) In a Finder window highlight a file of the kind you want to change the application to open that kind of file.
2) While that file is highlighted, select File > Get Info or press command (apple or propeller icon) + i to get a file information window.
3) In the lower part of the info window there is an "open with" menu with a list of applications.
4) If your application is already in the box then it is the default application for opening that kind of file and you don't need to do anything more. Close the get info window.
5) If the application showing in the menu is not the one with which you wish to open the file then select a new application. If your application does not appear there then select the "other..." and track down the application (usually in the Applications folder at the main level of the computer).
6) If you wish to change all files of this type to open with this application in future, make sure the "change all" button is selected.
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Hello,
How do I choose Photoshop as the Default Program to open .jpgs if the program doesn't appear in the "Choose Program you want to use to open this file:"? the
Also, I've Browsed in order to Choose the Default program but when I go to: Program Files>Adobe>Adobe Photoshop CC 2014>Photoshop.exe and choose this program the Windows Photo Viewer is automatically chosen and Photoshop doesn't EVER appear in my choose of Default programs.
This wasn't an issue with an older version of Photoshop.
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Lonnie

Sounds more like a Windows issue than Photoshop. Can you test the Open with tool with other file types and programs?
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Right -click "Open With" shows old Illustrator 10, not newer CS3

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I'm on a new machine with more memory so I want to give this Bridge a chance. But I just found it totally useless for Illustrator.
The first day I used it I went to open a PDF in Illustrator, so in Bridge I right click and go to open with to only find Illustrator 10 and Photoshop CS3 listed. No Illustrator CS3. Nor any option to browse and choose a different app.
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Here's what I mean:
http://premium1.uploadit.org/TimothyB/bridge.jpg
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I don't know why it happens but Dr Smoke has a fix for your problem Here.
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I use Preview as my default JPEG viewer application; when I want to edit I used another application and use "Open With". I have a backup drive mounted and the app's backed up show... that's a nuisance, but acceptable.
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A long shot perhaps, but at the bottom of the Open With submenu you will see "Other...". If you go in there there is a setting for either "All Applications" or a specific application folder to be selected. Have you assigned the latter and does it help?

Open With showing duplicate apps in finder

For those of you that use the Apple Mac App Store to download apps and are running into the issue of seeing your applications show up multiple times in the "Open With" command in the finder. This invoked by holding control + clicking an item in the finder and choose the "open with" choice.
I saw another large thread and didn't find an easy answer so I thought I'd post the solution that worked for me:
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/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fram ework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
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4 - Relaunch finder by holding the Option key + clicking on the Finder Icon in your dock.
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Hit like if it solved your problem.
Thanks to Tom Nelson and his "Rebuild the Launch Database" article.
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/remove-duplicate-applications-from-open -with.htm

It didn't work for me. You should mention which OS X version your command was intended for. I got a path name doesn't exist error when running the command.
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1- Launch Terminal.
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/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user && killall Finder
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[SOLVED] krunner shows uninstalled programs

Hi there people, I'm having somewhat of a problem here. I installed the firefox web browser on my system only for testing, I don't really like it. After a while I issued the 'pacman -Rd firefox' command to uninstall it. Issuing 'pacman -Q | grep firefox' gives me nothing, so I take it firefox has been uninstalled. Thing is, krunner is still showing it, and if I accidentaly try to run firefox my system freezes for a while. After it unfreezes, I cannot use alt+f2: it is gone for good. So I have to reboot my system to get alt+f2 back again. The thing is, how can I make firefox disappear for good?Thanks in advance for any help.
Last edited by gabscic (2009-03-30 15:15:26)

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Just bought this computer less than a month ago, everything is perfect except for this little bug that seems to be getting worse and worse.
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MacBook Pro
Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
Software OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)

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