Older applications launch Services database

I have a problem with older applications, which are not yet on my machine, appear when I right-click on a file and choose "open with...". ». From what I can tell that this list is what we call the launch Services database. I can clean with Clean My Mac 3 to rebuild the database, but in a day or so old applications (which as I have said, are not yet installed more) appear again.

It became a real problem about a week ago when Adobe Lightroom couldn't run Photoshop - I kept getting a weird error message. I posted the problem on several juries of Photoshop which resulted in my uninstall and reinstall several times, until I hit on the idea of rebuild launch services database. That fixed it for a while, but the old version of Photoshop crept into the launch services database and I could no longer run Photoshop of in Lightroom. I did Clean My Mac 3 reconstruction and it has cleared up, but I really want to solve this problem once and for all.

Don't use software such as "clean my mac"...

Only uninstall completely.

The launch services database can be erased with a small Terminal command, you don't need additional software to do this - and beware of any program that wants to 'clean up' or 'protect' your mac, as it is likely to more damage than any good. Some are outright scams.

If you need a reputable software to adjust the settings not available and to avoid dealing with the Terminal, try Onyx. Free, was there for many years, quickly updated and from a reputable developer.

Or triple - click the following line (it's a very long single line) to select it, copy and paste into a Terminal window, press ENTER to execute the command.

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

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