Open with... Disorders of context Menu! Any Solution?

Hi all

When I right click, then 'open with', I get a slew of different applications, some of which are not yet in my Applications! Even after the use of the common terminal fix for duplicates, this problem is back yet. Does anyone know if there is a way to change or limit where the context menu is for applications? I think that it is the search for my backups and legacy applications on my server storage for these applications because they are not in my Applications folder.

Thanks for the solution!

Although the problem is not the same, please follow the instructions in this article to support to reset the launch Services database. Instead of typing the shell command in the article, I suggest that you copy and paste the web page in the Terminal window. Make sure you only select the entire line. One way to do that is triple - click anywhere in the line.

If you do not already have a current backup, back up all data before proceeding. You should perhaps log out or restart to see a change.

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