How to remove older apps from Open With menu?

freaky

OSXer
I keep seeing a lot of older versions of Apps appear when I right click on a file and go to Open With. Is there anyway to remove these older versions? If so, is there anyway to keep it from doing this in the future so it will only show the current version? This happens with Firefox, Adobe Creative Suite, and more.
 
Open a Terminal window, copy then paste the following into it and press Enter.

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister \
-kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

this will remove old and duplicate entrys in the Open with menu.

jb.
 
Open a Terminal window, copy then paste the following into it and press Enter.

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister \
-kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

this will remove old and duplicate entrys in the Open with menu.

jb.

Wow jbarley that was cool! Thanks a bunch.:)
 
yah, that helped me to.
but one other thing, after I installed adobe cs 2 like forever ago, when I went to the open with menu, there was all those things for it, is there a way to get rid of it.
 
Just check Google for 'Rebuild LaunchServices Database.app. It downloads to your applications and you can click on it anytime you see your 'open with' box is duplicated,etc. Regards. Dean M
 
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