https://www.ramdyne.nl/enSat, 07 Mar 2026 00:09:01 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/removing-stale-entries-from-open-with-menu/ramdyne<p>For the last few years I had (for some unknown reason) three entries for VLC in my "Open with" menu in the Finder. There was no way to remove them from VLC itself and I couldn't find a way to do it myself. Until today. The following steps are also valid for other application that have stale "Open With" entries in the Fidner on a Mac running MacOS (nee Mac OS X)</p> <p>The first step is to close the offending application, just to make sure nothing is still open that could block our attempts). Then open a CLI terminal (Terminal, iTerm, etc) and go to "~/Library/Application Support/". You will find loads of qpplication related directories (maps, folders) here. Remove all the directories that have something to do with your application ("rm -rf VLC" etc).</p> <p>The last step is to recreate the "Open With" menu and restart the Finder. This might take a few seconds ("/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user" and "killall Finder")</p> <script src="https://gist.github.com/ramdyne/a744361b056df9b957b9188b73afbcab.js"></script>macossystem administrationhttps://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/removing-stale-entries-from-open-with-menu/Sat, 02 Jun 2018 12:03:08 GMT