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From: dorayme on 14 Mar 2010 17:15
In article <slrnhpqftv.1eki.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>,
Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> In message <siegman-33B04F.08523214032010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>
> AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Any time I access the "Open With" command from any starting point -- for
> > example in contextual menus, or in Get Info -- on my MacBook OS 10.4.11
> > system, each of the available apps is listed repeatedly, anywhere from 3
> > to 8 times.
>
> Are there multiple copies of those apps (A backup volume?)
>
> I seem to recall that problem in 10.4

Indeed yes, which raises a question, is there a way to stop this
particular behaviour - ie. showing all apps on all connected
volumes? How to show *only* the apps on the starter disk?

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dorayme
From: AES on 14 Mar 2010 21:45
In article <hnjcns01t93(a)news1.newsguy.com>,
J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote:

>
> You get the dupes by having multiple volumes with the same applications
> installed. If, for example, you have a boot volume, and a volume cloned from
> the boot volume, and a Time Machine backup volume, you might have up to three
> examples of the same app listed. Killing the Launch Services plist will clear
> the paths to the other copies of the app.
>

Thanks for helpful reply.

I do do SuperDuper! "Smart Update" backups of clones of my primary
MacBook, once a week from my primary MacBook to a "Standby MacBook"
opened in Target Disk mode, and every few days to a FireWire pocket
drive.

Those are the only two volumes that are ever connected to my primary
MacBook, however, and they're normally immediately disconnected once the
backup is complete (and, no Time Machine, yet).

But, that could be the problem.

Thanks again.
From: Jolly Roger on 15 Mar 2010 10:15
In article <siegman-D27A24.18454714032010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <hnjcns01t93(a)news1.newsguy.com>,
> J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote:
>
> >
> > You get the dupes by having multiple volumes with the same applications
> > installed. If, for example, you have a boot volume, and a volume cloned
> > from
> > the boot volume, and a Time Machine backup volume, you might have up to
> > three
> > examples of the same app listed. Killing the Launch Services plist will
> > clear
> > the paths to the other copies of the app.
> >
>
> Thanks for helpful reply.
>
> I do do SuperDuper! "Smart Update" backups of clones of my primary
> MacBook, once a week from my primary MacBook to a "Standby MacBook"
> opened in Target Disk mode, and every few days to a FireWire pocket
> drive.
>
> Those are the only two volumes that are ever connected to my primary
> MacBook, however, and they're normally immediately disconnected once the
> backup is complete (and, no Time Machine, yet).
>
> But, that could be the problem.

It almost certainly is the problem. Unfortunately, as far as Apple is
concerned, it's a feature, not a bug.

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From: Nick Naym on 15 Mar 2010 11:52
In article siegman-D27A24.18454714032010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu, AES at
siegman(a)stanford.edu wrote on 3/14/10 9:45 PM:

> In article <hnjcns01t93(a)news1.newsguy.com>,
> J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote:
>
>>
>> You get the dupes by having multiple volumes with the same applications
>> installed. If, for example, you have a boot volume, and a volume cloned from
>> the boot volume, and a Time Machine backup volume, you might have up to three
>> examples of the same app listed. Killing the Launch Services plist will clear
>> the paths to the other copies of the app.
>>
>
> Thanks for helpful reply.
>
> I do do SuperDuper! "Smart Update" backups of clones of my primary
> MacBook, once a week from my primary MacBook to a "Standby MacBook"
> opened in Target Disk mode, and every few days to a FireWire pocket
> drive.
>
> Those are the only two volumes that are ever connected to my primary
> MacBook, however, and they're normally immediately disconnected once the
> backup is complete (and, no Time Machine, yet).
>
> But, that could be the problem.
>
> Thanks again.

I've had similar experiences, except that several of the "multiple" apps had
different version numbers appended to their names in parentheses. It took me
forever to realize that each of the "multiples" was associated with a
different external drive (some containing a different software version) that
I had attached to my Mac at that particular time. (It was the different
version numbers that triggered my "eureka moment.")


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iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.2)

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