Timeline for How to prevent OSX Yosemite from launching old app for ":news" URL in browser
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| Sep 28, 2015 at 19:59 | comment | added | PRouleau |
One more snag: OS/X still adds the old apps to the list after rebooting with the disk where the old apps are located. I tried the lsregister -kill -r -f -domain local -domain system -domain user command but as long as OSX sees the files, it adds them....
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| Sep 28, 2015 at 19:39 | comment | added | PRouleau | Note that when you run the lsregister command, the system must have access to the disks that contain the old, invalid apps (if they are still in these disks). | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 18:37 | comment | added | PRouleau |
By closing all apps, rebooting, opening a shell and executing lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user then all invalid associations are gone.
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| Sep 28, 2015 at 18:31 | comment | added | PRouleau | OK, after some digging around, I found a couple of sites describing how to use lsregister to clean up OS/X Default Application database. You first need to identify where that executable is. It was not in my PATH. I found i t in /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/ | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 17:41 | comment | added | PRouleau | Thanks, looks like there is a lsregister utility that can be used to clean that up. | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | Tetsujin | It's all controlled by LaunchServices which is well beyond my ability to explain properly. | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 15:47 | vote | accept | PRouleau | ||
| Sep 28, 2015 at 15:46 | comment | added | PRouleau | I used RCDefaultApp and it does work under OS/X 10.10.5 (Yosemite). It did allow me to fix the association, Thanks! It also lists all the invalid Apps that reside on external disks that should have never been identified by OS/X as applications that can be used. Unfortunately RCDefaultApp does not seem to allow cleaning them out. | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 15:33 | comment | added | PRouleau | Do you know where this app gets its info? A plist file somewhere perhaps? On the system that has this problem Finder "Open with" dialog for a given file type lists a lot of applications OS/X found in external disks that contain backup of other computers. I'd like to get rid of them too. | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 15:02 | history | answered | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |