Kill the duplicates in your Mac's "Open With" menu

Three Mac Open With menus containing duplicate application entries

Kill the duplicates in your Mac's "Open With" menu.

  1. Make sure your computer has a current Time Machine backup. Using Terminal can be dangerous if you mistype something.
  2. Launch Terminal from your Applications/Utilities folder.
  3. Copy and paste this command into Terminal and press return:
    System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

  4. Reboot or force-quit Finder.

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