"Reveal in finder" as contextual menu

I would like a CM in iPhoto 9.1.5 (10.7.1) that offers "Reveal in Finder". Modified version is fine, or a drop down offering Original, also.
Yes I know it's in the File menu
I expect this will be done in Auomator. I'm not that good at that, but will try. Thanks for any help.

Not sure that's possible. I had a quick look in Automator and there is no actions there that will do a 'Reveal In Finder' that I could see.

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Organize the Finder's contextual menu ....

Hi,
In the Finder, the contextual menu includes in the bottom many added menus. Automator is there and all the other contextual menu plugin I added over time. Some of them have many items for the same app and should be separated from each other.
I know I can create personalized menus with FRUIT MENU or with OPEN MENU X, but they do not work on the contextual menus that are added by the system.
Is it possible to separate these added contextual menu with separators ?
Thanks in advance.
Robert

I did not say you cannot delete them, I said those built-in to the OS cannot be deleted. Those installed by you or third-party software in either the Library or Home/Library's contextual menu items folders could be removed. But I wouldn't delete anything without knowing the consequences of doing so. Many contextual menu items have a purpose even though you may not have yet discovered the purpose.
You can simply create a ContextualMenuItems (Disabled) folder and place the ones you don't wish to use in the folder. You can create a similarly named folder in all three Library folders - one for each.
You could use a third-party preference pane like Diabloting - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - that can manage contextual menu items, preference panes, fonts, etc. by moving them into and out of their normal folders.
I might wonder what is behind this effort?

How do I remove "Scan with ClamXav" in Lion? I cannot find a contextual menu item folder in at home/library.

How do I remove "Scan with ClamXav" in Lion? I cannot find a contextual menu item folder in at home/library. I installed and removed ClamXav from the Mac app store.
Thanks.

ToBeHuman wrote:
Thanks! AppTrap mentioned in the linked article got rid of it for me.
Actually, it didn't. With Snow Leopard and Lion, the contextual menu is provided by a built in "service" within the ClamXav application itself.
If you downloaded ClamXav from the AppStore, all you need to do is trash it and reboot.
If you downloaded the full version from the web you need to first run the "ClamAV Engine REMOVER" script that comes on the ClamXav_2.x.x.dmg. Then trash the ClamXav application, empty the trash and reboot.
There are also one or two preferences that can be found in ~/Library/Preferences/ that start with "uk.co.markallen.clamxav..." that take up minimal space and don't do anything without the application. AppTrap probably found those.

Slideshow display order using Tiger Finder - Control-contextual menu?

The Tiger Finder Slideshow function (select image files, press Control, Choose Slideshow from the drop-down menu) behaves oddly.
1. The slide display order is reproducible, but is not controlled by the View display order. It is NOT Name, Date modified, or Date created.
2. Digital camera images imported via Image Capture are displayed mostly in order, with a few out of name and date-taken order.
3. Downloaded art images display in no discernable order.
4. 100 images appears to be the maximum size of the slideshow.
I can find no documentation of this feature in Apple help - just a mention of using it for a slideshow of Spotlight-found pics.
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It partakes of the whole Finder snafu with regard to ordering things in List and Icon view and preserving this order when you do something like copy and paste, for instance to get a folder content list into a text document. You can get them to display in aphanumeric order if you set the Finder window to Column View first.
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Can't access in Finder Contextual Menu the sub-menu named More

Hi!
I was trying to learn how to use Automator, in the web page
http://www.macosxautomation.com/automator/examples/ex03/index.html
and I realize that I can't access in Finder Contextual Menu the sub-menu named More for choose Automator > Create Workflow... from the sub-menu.
Someone can help me to configure the finder in order to

That page is out of date since it doesn't reflect the change in Snow Leopard that did away with the More contextual menu. Try this. System Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->Services->Development->enable Create Workflow. Close the prefPane, select the object, CONTROL-click->Services->Create Workflow.
If that solves your issue, then send a message to the page's developer and ask them to update it.
BTW, see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2241804 for a four-parter by Sal Saghoian on *Automation in Snow Leopard*
and this, which describes the old and new automator—services stuff:
http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/08/automator-and-finder-interactions-in-os-x-10- 6/

Contextual Menu Plug-in for Finder in Snow Leopard

I have Contextual Menu Plug-in for Finder which works with my application, but it doesn't work in Snow Leopard. I read that plugins are not supported in 64bit environment. There is still Menus.h file with CFPlugin interface in 10.6 SDK, but my plugin not loaded by Finder even it is compiled for x86_64.
I read about revamped Services that they should be used, but I didn't find a clue how to create dynamic menu with tree of items.
I need to communicate with another application which runs on background and creates menu items in dependency of selected items, their path and other conditions.
Application is written in Java and CMPlugin (which doesn't work in 10.6) is in C++.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Hi
Guys, any suggestion?

Since installing Lion, no Finder window will open on the desktop. I can see them through "Quick Look" and "View all Windows" in the contextual menu for Finder in the

Since installing Lion, no Finder window will open on the desktop. I can see them through "Quick Look" and "View all Windows" in the contextual menu for Finder in the dock.

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"Open with ... other" Finder contextual menu

Hi, I am facing a curious situation in my SL 10.6.8 machine, when using the "Open with ... other" Finder contextual menu.
When I'm logged with any user account except one, the menu item behaves normally : it creates an "Open window" pointing to the /Applications folder of the machine and the window seems to be a normal one.
But when I'm logged with a specific user account, the menu item creates an "Open window" pointing to the /Documents folder of the user account instead of the /Applications folder of the machine. So I need to manually navigate to the /Applications folder to choose the application to launch.
Of course, I may create a new account, transfer my files to this new account, delete the current one and explain to Time Machine that the new account is the same as the old one. But I don't want to waste my time with this basic solution. So, I'm looking for a better one. But, at this time, I failed to find the way the "Open with ... other" Finder contextual menu knows where to open the "Open window".
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
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Hello linda2009
1) I bought my first Default Folder licence in 2002. I upgraded to Default Folder X in 2003. I have a very good opinion of this product, and I recommend it to my friends when they decide to switch to Mac.
2) My Macs are configured with many accounts, one which is admin (and the only admin) of the machine, the others which are non-admin users.
3) The incident I described in my first post occurred only when logged in one of the non-admin accounts.
4) To solve the incident, I did not deinstall the product, but only deactivate it when logged in the specific account showing the problem, delete the preference files of this account, and reactivate the product always logged in the same account. Of course, as the licence key was stored in one of the files I deleted, I had to register it again.
So, the incident did not change my mind about the product. I suggest you try it. It's free for 30 days.
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Contextual menu in finder "open with" has multiple entries of same apps

When I use the contextual menu (right click) on documents, the menu point "open with..." shows multiple entries of the same programs. For example when right clicking a PDF, there appears 5 times neoOffice, 2 times Preview, 6 times ... any other application that you could use to open the document. This occurs on all user accounts, only that the multiplicity of listings of the apps is different. So it can't be a preferences problem on my account. What else could be the cause?
This is quite annoying because the apps-list becomes very long and unusable.
Note: I have 2 internal start up disks with OS and apps installed, but only one mounted. That means, there cannot be a duplicate (triplicate...etc) copy of any app accessible at any time.
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if I quit all running applications, it will be pretty hard to put anything in the Trash!
Are you being literal? Like quitting the Finder too? Or what bespeaks you?
Actually, I use Xupport to do that, but I think Onyx and several other Utilities include that option.

Clearing the Finder "Open With" contextual menu ?

After the install I now have duplicates of all the stuff I used to have in the open with menu.
Like VLC and then under it VLC (version number).
How do I clear it?

As seen here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305627
*Mac OS X: Clearing the Finder "Open With" contextual menu*
Ever wondered how to "clear" the Finder's Open With... contextual menu choices of any extraneous or older applications? (This is the menu that appears when you control-click or "right-click" a document icon.)
If your Open With... menu is filled with too many choices to easily scroll through, you can remove the less-commonly used choices. These steps will clear the list except for the most current applications that can open your document.
From the Finder Go menu, choose Home.
Open the Library folder in the Home window.
Open the Preferences folder.
Find com.apple.LaunchServices.plist.
Rename "com.apple.LaunchServices", such as to "com.apple.LaunchServices.old", or move it to the Trash.
The next time you use the Open With.... contextual menu in the Finder, only current applications will be listed. Some items may return if the application that controls them adds itself back to the list.

Clean up Finder "Open With" contextual menu in Yosemite

How do I clean up the Finder "Open With" contextual menu in Yosemite? I have several duplicate and obsolete entries in mine. There are several articles out there that show how to do this for previous versions of Mac OS X, but the instructions don't line up with what I see in Yosemite.
Also, the entries I have in the menu are from a version of Windows through a version of VMware Fusion, both of which versions I haven't used in a long while. I did a clean install of Yosemite this morning (on an erased disk) so I'm curious how the menu was populated. Did it somehow get inherited through the iCloud Keychain?
Thanks for any help!

As seen here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305627
*Mac OS X: Clearing the Finder "Open With" contextual menu*
Ever wondered how to "clear" the Finder's Open With... contextual menu choices of any extraneous or older applications? (This is the menu that appears when you control-click or "right-click" a document icon.)
If your Open With... menu is filled with too many choices to easily scroll through, you can remove the less-commonly used choices. These steps will clear the list except for the most current applications that can open your document.
From the Finder Go menu, choose Home.
Open the Library folder in the Home window.
Open the Preferences folder.
Find com.apple.LaunchServices.plist.
Rename "com.apple.LaunchServices", such as to "com.apple.LaunchServices.old", or move it to the Trash.
The next time you use the Open With.... contextual menu in the Finder, only current applications will be listed. Some items may return if the application that controls them adds itself back to the list.

Finder quits when I try to use contextual menu on Photoshop CS2 JPEGs

Everytime when I right-click on a .jpg file saved in Photoshop's "save as" dialogue, the finder crashes immediately. It doesn't occur, when the JPEG was saved with Photoshop's "save for web" dialogue.
A Finder or a Photoshop problem?

Hmmm, do you remember if there were any Contextual Menu items installed by you?
I'd try dragging the things out of these folders and put them back one at a time with a reboot to find the offener...
System/Library/Contextual Menu Items
Users/YourUserName/Library/Contextual Menu Items

Cleanup of Finder Contextual Menu - Open With

How can I clean up the 'Open With' Finder Contextual Menu? It currently has duplicate entries for some applications (and, no, I don't have multiple copies of these applications installed on my Mac).
I tried to rebuild the 'Launch Services' database using a tool called 'Cache Out X,' but that didn't do do the trick.
Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated.
PowerBook G4 1.33 Ghz (me) iMac - 1.0 Ghz (kids)& FP Mac OS X (10.4.5)

David,
That seems like a logical conclusion. Documentation? I assume you mean:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServic es.framework/Support/lsregister -h
lsregister: [OPTIONS] [-domain { system | local | user | network }]... [path]...
Search the paths for application bundles and add each found item to the Launch
Services database. For domain specifications, ask CF for the list of application
locations in the given domain(s).
-kill Reset the global Launch Services database before doing anything else
-lint Print information about plist errors while registering bundles
-convert Register apps found in older LS database files
-lazy n Sleep for n seconds before registering apps if the local cache
is aleady populated.
-r Recursively register directory contents, do not recurse into
packages or invisible directories.
-R Recursively register directory contents, including the contents
of packages and invisible directories.
-f force-update registration info even if mod date is unchanged
-v Display progress information.
-dump Display full database contents after registration.
-h Display this help.
Still not sure why /Volumes/* yielded three entries for GraphicConverter. However, when I was searching for all possible occurrences of the application, I did notice something odd: the GraphicConverter application does not include a ".app" extension. All the other applications that I checked include this extension.
PowerBook G4 1.33 Ghz (me) & FP iMac - 1.0 Ghz (kids) Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Folder action contextual menu item in Finder

hi,
I remember that when I first got my mac, the contextual menu in Finder would also include an item related to Folder Actions (don't remember the exact wording now). However, at some point of time, when I didn't find folder actions to be really useful to me, I think I must have made some change somewhere, and now the said item doesn't appear in the contextual menu anymore.
Though I do run Folder Action Setup.app and have set up actions for some specific folders, I would rather want this contextual menu item back, so that I can directly enable Folder Actions in/for a folder w/o having to invoke the setup.app.
Hope someone can help out.

If the 'FolderActionsMenu.plugin' is not in the /System/Library/Contextual Menu Items folder you can download a copy here.
<http://tomx.890m.com/FolderActionsMenu.dmg>
If that's the case, after you install the plugin Repair Disk Permissions with your Disk Utility and Restart.
Good luck,
Tom

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