It's not unheard-of for apps to store "emergency" copies of themselves and other utilities there, and unless they provide their own uninstallers (and you use them), those hidden bits tend to stick around.
I ran into a related sort of misbehavior with a client who had an external attached with other versions of macOS on it, and the App Store was doing crazy things to his Applications library until I persuaded him to exclude that drive from Spotlight. > On Jun 25, 2020, at 12:33 AM, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
