When I bring up the contextual menu by command-clicking on a document icon I 
will get a list of applications from which to choose for opening that 
document. What is puzzling is that the same application can be listed a 
multiplicity of times; at the moment "GraphicConverter" shows up eight-fold. 
I'm curious as to why this is happening and if there is some way of resetting 
the list to exclude the duplicates.

-- 
James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

In article <0001HW.BEE16F96007A44B0F0407550@news.supernews.com>,
 James L. Ryan <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> When I bring up the contextual menu by command-clicking on a document icon I 
> will get a list of applications from which to choose for opening that 
> document. What is puzzling is that the same application can be listed a 
> multiplicity of times; at the moment "GraphicConverter" shows up eight-fold. 
> I'm curious as to why this is happening and if there is some way of resetting 
> the list to exclude the duplicates.

Are you sure you haven't got multiple instances of GC on your computer? 
If you have, delete all but one (presumably the latest).


Alwyn

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:26:26 -0500, Alwyn wrote
(in article <dt015a1979-749390.14262724062005@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>):

> In article <0001HW.BEE16F96007A44B0F0407550@news.supernews.com>,
>  James L. Ryan <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> When I bring up the contextual menu by command-clicking on a document icon 
>> I 
>> will get a list of applications from which to choose for opening that 
>> document. What is puzzling is that the same application can be listed a 
>> multiplicity of times; at the moment "GraphicConverter" shows up 
>> eight-fold. 
>> I'm curious as to why this is happening and if there is some way of 
>> resetting 
>> the list to exclude the duplicates.
> 
> Are you sure you haven't got multiple instances of GC on your computer? 
> If you have, delete all but one (presumably the latest).
> 
> 
> Alwyn

Alwyn,

Thanks for the speedy reply.

Spotlight shows that there is only a single instance of GraphicConverter 
installed. There are also multiple instances of Preview, QuickTime, and 
Safari in the Open With list. And again, Spotlight only shows a single 
application instance of each of those.

Jim

-- 
James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

James L. Ryan <taliesinsoft@mac.com> writes:

> > In article <0001HW.BEE16F96007A44B0F0407550@news.supernews.com>,
> >  James L. Ryan <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> When I bring up the contextual menu by command-clicking on a
> >> document icon I will get a list of applications from which to
> >> choose for opening that document. What is puzzling is that the
> >> same application can be listed a multiplicity of times; at the
> >> moment "GraphicConverter" shows up eight-fold.  I'm curious as to
> >> why this is happening and if there is some way of resetting the
> >> list to exclude the duplicates.
> > 
> Spotlight shows that there is only a single instance of GraphicConverter 
> installed. There are also multiple instances of Preview, QuickTime, and 
> Safari in the Open With list. And again, Spotlight only shows a single 
> application instance of each of those.

I have noticed the same thing in the Open With dialog in the Finder.

For instance, with a .wav file, I get offered 6 choices of QuickTime
Player when I have only 3 QuickTime Player applications available (in
clones and previous system versions online).  

I'm also offered 2 choices of Amadeus II, though I only have 1 online.

I'm offered 4 iTunes though I only have 3 (so it isn't doubling
everything).

I'm only offered 1 choice for Audion 3, which is still sitting in my
downloads folder.

Martin

James L. Ryan wrote:

> Spotlight shows that there is only a single instance of GraphicConverter 
> installed. There are also multiple instances of Preview, QuickTime, and 
> Safari in the Open With list. And again, Spotlight only shows a single 
> application instance of each of those.

Do you have a folder at the root of your drive named "Previous Systems"? 
  If so, you may have copies of those applications in there. Spotlight 
does not search that folder by default.


	-J.

In article <d9nbru$18fk$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu>,
 Jennifer Mullen <jsm158+usenet@psu.edu> wrote:

> James L. Ryan wrote:
> 
> > Spotlight shows that there is only a single instance of GraphicConverter 
> > installed. There are also multiple instances of Preview, QuickTime, and 
> > Safari in the Open With list. And again, Spotlight only shows a single 
> > application instance of each of those.
> 
> Do you have a folder at the root of your drive named "Previous Systems"? 
>   If so, you may have copies of those applications in there. Spotlight 
> does not search that folder by default.
> 
> 
> 	-J.

OS X 10.4.1:  I've also just noticed that when choosing which 
application opens a particular file using the Get Info window, multiple 
instances of each application are listed. There is no Previous System 
folder on my drive as I performed an Erase and Install of Tiger.

-- 
Loie