I thought I had that covered by checking in both Applications and Utilities as well as the user Applications folder. Nothing showed up.
However doing what you suggested I found some rogue copies fairly easily and deleted them. The others took more finding until I found multiple copies hiding in the Application Support folder. How they got there I have absolutely no idea. It’s not somewhere I would put them either temporarily or otherwise. I suppose it could be rogue installers, one reason I prefer .dmg as you know more or less what you are doing. Increasingly ‘installer’ packages tend to follow the Microsoft model of putting stuff in the nooks and crannies of the OS without bothering to tell you. Still all is now well. Thanks for the help. Chris > On 25 Jun 2020, at 02:31, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do the duplicate apps actually exist somewhere? That is, if you choose 2.5.6, > then go to the Dock and do a Show in Finder, does it actually show that app > hiding somewhere? > > If so, just delete it. > > If not, try reindexing your Spotlight index. > >> On Jun 23, 2020, at 12:59 AM, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi: >> >> For some reason the "open with…” menu has several items which are new >> versions of the same app. >> >> Eg Open with: >> >> PDF Expert( 2.5.6) >> PDF Expert( 2.5.7) >> PDF Expert( 2.5.8) >> >> There’s a couple of others in the same vein, but you get the idea. >> >> I’ve tried deleting: ~/library/preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.prefs >> but this is >> >> replaced on restart with one labelled: >> com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV2 >> >> There is also a folder: com.apple.LaunchServices which contains: >> com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist Opening this with BBEdit shows only >> a single pdfexpert with no version numbers and similarly for the others. >> >> `I’ve also tried rebuilding the launch services database which doesn’t solve >> the problem. >> >> Can someone tell me how I can remove what are effectively duplicates, from >> the menu. >> >> Chris Walker >> >> Catalina 10.15.5 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
