How to prevent applications on an external hard drive from showing up in the "Open With" contextual menu?
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I have two hard drives on my machine (Lion). One contains the regular copy of OS that I use everyday, the one has a slightly older copy of the OS that I keep as a backup (in case the first drive stops working). A somewhat annoying problem is that whenever I right-click on a file and go to "Open Wit…
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/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister
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Fix for: How to prevent applications on an external hard drive from showing up in the "Open With" contextual menu?
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Try this procedure: Exclude your second drive from Spotlight indexing (or, if you want to keep access to it via Spotlight, just exclude its folder) by dragging its icon into the Privacy pane of the Spotlight System Settings. This will preclude Launc…
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