Clearing Open With... in contextual menus

Note: this is a Mirror of tip 1002 provided to preserve the original formatting of this tip. Other tips written by Macmaps.com owner and author Abraham Brody are also mirrored.

If your Open With... menu gets too filled up with possible applications to open a document with when you control-mouse click (or right click) a document, you can clear that list so that it only shows the most current applications that can launch said document by removing one file. Home -> Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.LaunchServices.plist

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