Services Menu question

Any idea why when I access the Services Menu, I get "Building" and it never becomes available? I restart - it does.

System Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->click on Services, disable and reenable, and restart should reset things. Alternatively, select Restore Defaults, restart, reopen, and reset things.

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    It's been several OS X iterations since the introduction of Services.  While I know you can enable/disable them from the Keyboards Pref Pane, is there still no way to group or reorder them?  Third party or otherwise?

    George,
    This is from Apple's Help menu and should explain what services are.
    Some applications provide “services” that let you use features of that application while working in another application. For example, the Mail service in the Finder opens the Mail application so that you can email a file directly from the Finder without opening the Mail application separately.
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    Select what you want to work with (such as a file or some text), and then choose the service you want to use from the application menu.
    For example, to email a document on your desktop, select the file you want and then choose Finder > Services > Mail > Send File.
    If the service is dimmed, you may have selected something that doesn’t work with that particular service. Try selecting something else and check the menu again.
    Publishers have to write their software to take advantage of Services, but many don't.
    To answer your question, you cannot get rid of the Services menu item, so just ignore it.
    Keith

  • How does services menu work and how to clean it up?

    You know how context menus on the mac are sometimes slow? I've figured out this has to do with the services menu.. located under keyboard -->services in the left-hand sidebar. My question is how do apps put services in that menu.. and how do I remove rather than disable a specific menu item?
    I guess my broader question is how do I completely uninstall applications when I no longer have the original app bundle? I'm just concerned about clutter acclumating over time.
    --Sam

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/1485840#1485840
    Apple found this answer for me after I posted.
    However, the question is still a good one in general. Absent something like appzapper anaylyzing the app, how does one uninstall. The services menu looks like it will be taken care of when the app is removed. Language packs must have been the culprit for me?
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  • Using the Services Menu

    I don't know how to make this work. Say I want to use Grab, I go to Services, select Grab, and the submenu is grayed out. so I open Grab and repeat, and the Grab submenu is still grayed out.
    yeah, I know it's been there forever, but I'd like to use Grab easier than opening it manually.
    Thanks.

    Personally, I think the Services menu is the most useless thing ever put together by Apple. How it functions is not at all intuitive, leading one to the conclusion that it does NOT Just Work. The Grab Service is a case in point. AFAIK, one of the few occasions when the options are available is if you have a TextEdit document open, and the said document is in RTF format. Then the Grab service will be available. The Grab service does not work in Finder. It does not work in Preview, but in Preview you can access Grab in the File menu (evidently the software engineers who wrote Preview realized that one would want to use Grab with Preview, but that you couldn't do so thru the Services menu, because of the way Services works, so they added it to Preview's own File menu). Insane.
    The general principle of Services is that it will only work in programs that support Services, and the program in question must be able to handle whatever-it-is that the service does. Finder won't open a png file in a new window, thus no Grab service. Ditto for most programs. In the case of Preview it will handle png files, but it has no mechanism for creating a new window. So no Grab Service. And so on.
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  • Services menu - how can I get rid of it?

    The Services menu baffles me -- the menu items are always grayed out for me, so what's the point of it? I understand that a vanishingly few applications such as Safari can take advantage of the menu, but none of the applications I use does. So how can I just get rid of the menu?
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    George,
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    Some applications provide “services” that let you use features of that application while working in another application. For example, the Mail service in the Finder opens the Mail application so that you can email a file directly from the Finder without opening the Mail application separately.
    To use an application’s services:
    Select what you want to work with (such as a file or some text), and then choose the service you want to use from the application menu.
    For example, to email a document on your desktop, select the file you want and then choose Finder > Services > Mail > Send File.
    If the service is dimmed, you may have selected something that doesn’t work with that particular service. Try selecting something else and check the menu again.
    Publishers have to write their software to take advantage of Services, but many don't.
    To answer your question, you cannot get rid of the Services menu item, so just ignore it.
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  • Can I remove items from the Services menu?

    I think the subject line says it all: can I remove items from the Services menu? I have a number of items in the Services menu that I never use and I would like to make the menu shorter to make it easier to access the items that I do use.

    There are a couple of things you could try. There's an application called Service Scrubber that is supposed to do this. But the web page says it's for 10.4, though it says it might work on 10.3
    Alternatively, you can edit the Info.plist or Info-macos.plist file in each application bundle to remove its service from the Services menu. This post at Mac OS X Hints has a pretty detailed description of how to do it. I tried this on my iMac running 10.3.9 and it worked just fine.
    Don't know about the Service Scrubber app, but if you edit the plist files, you'll need to log out and log back in before the changes take effect.
    Also, if you decide to edit the files by hand, I'd suggest just renaming NSServices by adding an "x" to the front or something, rather than deleting the item completely. That makes the changes easier to reverse.
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  • TV Not working - Light Blinks 3 times after exiting service menu?

    Was just in the TV service menu to check hours of usage, was 709 (low), this TV is virtually new. Powered TV off using the remote and now it won't turn back on. There is a green light on the front that will blink 3 times and stay off for a few seconds then repeat.
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  • Firefox 18.0.1 Mac OS 10.6.8: "Services Menu" items no longer available, "No Services Apply" only item showing.

    Where have the 'services menu' items gone? How can they be recovered/reinstated? Tried 'reset' ; tried restart -- still no 'services' (e.g. "email address", "open URL").

    Thanks, that answer would SEEM to make sense.
    But I deleted  all the preference files (not just the one you suggest) and restarted , etc... several times.
    End result: Flash CS4 still crashes, if not on opening, then everytime I try to open my old documents and reset the preferences.
    I am currently reinstalling my entire hard drive just to try to get CS4 to work again.
    I have worked with Flash since 1998, using it professionally for everything from short interactive demos to feature length animated films.
    CS4 is without a doubt the most poorly designed, inefficient version I have ever dealt with.
    A great and useful animation program was turned into a piece of bloated garbage filled with bugs and inefficiencies.
    I will switch to the first animation program that comes along to replace it, now that adobe seems to think the only real use for flash is to create low level acton scripts (despite being used for tv show level animation production for years.)
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  • Remove Items Services Menu

    I like to experiment with new software. Most I end up deleting but occasionally I end up with some cool stuff. The problem, however, is that some of these add services in the Services Menu and I can't get rid of them.
    I've removed the apps with AppZapper, I've done a search with EasyFind and removed any other traces of these apps. I've even gone in manually and looked through all three libraries (user, system, hard drive) and looked in Application Support, Preferences, Caches, Services (seems obvious but there are only 6 items total in there) and every other folder that might relate to this.
    Nothing of these programs exist anywhere in my system or hard drive, yet their services are still in the Services Menu. If anyone knows how to get these things out I'd really like to know.
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    Hi, Kevin.
    Take a look at the System
    Services documentation, particularly the
    section "Items in the Services Menu", to understand
    how the Services Menu functions.
    Thanks, Doc. I've saved it as a web archive to read later since it's 6 am and I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee yet and it's a bit too much to deal with right now.
    I suspect you may have to perform a restart after
    uninstalling an app that adds items to the Services
    menu in order for it to be cleared.
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    I just left all those Services sitting there because I didn't have time to deal with it and they didn't seem to be hurting anything. I always assumed I just needed to go into the various services folders and delete them, so when I went to do that yesterday I was quite surprised to not find any of them there. Had a similar problem with Contextual Menus with many of the same programs, but those I did find in the correct folders and removed them and they are gone like they should be.
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    for the info.plist files of installed applications to
    find potential services, as well as checking any
    "Library/Services" directories extant (Macintosh HD >
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    The problem with that is I've removed all traces of these apps, even going through and looking for scraps manually after doing a search with EasyFind. They no longer exist so how can Service's Scrubber change anything in them? And I've looked through all the services folders and none of these programs exist there either. Here's what's in the folders:
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    ChronosNotesService.app
    ChronosNotesService.bundle
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    System services:
    AppleSpell.service
    ChineseTextConverterService.app
    ImageCaptureService.app
    Spotlight.service
    SummaryService.app
    HD/Library doesn't even have a services folder.
    The lack of services placed in services folders is puzzling. I just installed Yojimbo yesterday and it added a service yet it doesn't show up either. Where are they putting these?
    But, clearly, Service's Scrubber can find these and turn them off.
    AppZapper may also not be doing its job fully. You
    should consult with the author concerning the
    Services issues you are seeing.
    It sounds like I need to contact AppZapper, Service's Scrubber AND the various apps causing the problems. Sigh.
    They aren't causing any problems and aren't even cluttering the Services Menu any more since I used Service's Scrubber, I'm just curious as to what's going on.

  • Clearing out the Finder's services menu.

    Is there a way to remove items from the Finders Services menu?
    I've got a bunch of stuff I really would rather not have there.
    OS 10.4.7 PPC and Intel

    It looks like there is a solution here: Can I remove items from the Services menu?.
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  • I have an "Untitled" test service that no longer exists in Library/Services/ but still loads in the context menu and finder services menu.  How do I get rid of it?

    I created an "Untitled" test service, then deleted it.  It no longer exists in Library/Services/ but still loads in the context menu and finder services menu.  Reboots do not change the behavior.  How do I get rid of it?

    ... and mysteriously, it's gone again.  Multiple reboots across the day between then and now, plus a few hibernations as I moved about.  It's as if Finder cached the [deleted!] workflow file and continued to operate off of the cache for an indeterminate time....

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    On clicking services menu, say in TextEdit, on my i7 Snow Leopard I get a very short list (3) compared to my G5 PowerMac (20). Is this normal?
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    Hello Douglas,
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