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How to rebuild the LaunchServices database - the GUI-phile / shell-phobic way
Authored by: jtillford on Sep 28, '09 11:56:35PM
This is a great tip and many, myself included, are perfectly comfortable mucking about in the shell.
But for those of you that get nervous at the mention of Terminal.app, there is a graphical alternative for this hint.

The popular utility Cocktail can rebuild the Launch Services database with a simple GUI click.

Happy DB rebuilding.

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How to rebuild the LaunchServices database - the GUI-phile / shell-phobic way
Authored by: tedw on Sep 29, '09 09:04:37AM

just in fairness, there are a number of 'service utility' apps that do this - Yasu and Onyx are two the spring to mind. or you can do what I did - write the code into an applescript and save it in the script menu. that way you only have to deal with the terminal command once.



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