How To Remove Duplicate Apps from Right Click menu in Mac OS X

In right click, the ‘Open With’ feature allows us to open the selected file with applications other than the one associated with it. Normally, it displays all the compatible apps which can open the ic file but sometimes, it offers duplicate apps in the ‘Open With’ menu.

Although its not a harmful bug but, sometimes it irritates and need the duplicate apps to be removed from ‘Open With’ menu.

 

Steps to trim duplicate apps

1. Open Terminal application.
   
   
   
   
2. Copy and paste the following code in Terminal, then press Enter.
   /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user  
   
   
   
   
3. After that, Go to Finder by holding down the Alt key and right clicking the Finder icon in the Dock, then click Relaunch.
   
   
   
   

That’s all you need to do. The above steps would result a trimmed ‘Open With’ menu. 

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