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any other places besides .app package?
Authored by: infinil on Aug 01, '03 05:24:46PM

I seem to be having trouble with the sample droplets that photoshop 7.0 and imageready had installed. There are literally 21 new options in "open with" when i cmd+click on a jpg. It's ridiculous. I've checked the Adobe Photoshop package, and these droplets aren't to be found in that info.plist.

To boot, there isn't an option to "show package content" on the droplets themselves.

So my question is this: Are there any other places that would store that information? Perhaps in the Library, but I really dont have an idea on where it might be.

Anyone?



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any other places besides .app package?
Authored by: echo on Aug 01, '03 06:48:36PM

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030207065422748

I compressed the folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/Samples/Droplets and got rid of those items in the Open With contextual menu. Just moving the folder from that location, did not stop the contextual menu from finding them. I don't use these droplets, but they're there if I need them.



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any other places besides .app package?
Authored by: jjackson on Aug 01, '03 07:02:07PM

I looked in "Make Button.exe" using ResEdit under Classic mode, and found that the plsts resource had the Info.plist information. I assume that editing that would do the same thing, though I haven't tried it.



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RE: any other places besides .app package?
Authored by: jail on Aug 04, '03 07:01:38PM

in mac os 9, the information was stored in the file's resource fork. some os x apps still do it like that too. changing the resources is no light hack. but it can be done. i'll try and give you a description of how it works

make a backup of droplet. i'm not sure if this will work.

open the droplet in a resource editor (such as ResEdit, it works fine in classic).

open the "BNDL" resource group. you will get a list of resources. each with a four character code, such as "JPEG" or "GIFf". highlight he ones you don't want and delete it somehow (delete should be in one of the menu's, i think).

cross fingers, save changes. please note that changing what type of documents an app can open could cause problems. i'm not sure if this will work, i haven't tested it, and it's your fault if you don't keep a backup. you might have to log out or something for the change to take effect.



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any other places besides .app package?
Authored by: ChadBaus on Feb 27, '04 04:56:41PM

Those Droplets are actually stored in a subfolder under whichever Adobe product they are associated with. Example:

"Save As JPEG Medium.exe" is stored here:

Adobe Photoshop:Samples:Droplets:Photoshop Droplets

So OS X has "spidered" through all the subfolders to find this little "droplet" application, and it registers it in the Contextual Menu... not much else we can do that I'm aware of, but I'm new to this also, I hate having all those droplets appear in the CMM.



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any other places besides .app package?
Authored by: Ryanshinra on Apr 11, '04 03:26:01PM

I found that renaming the folder containing the cursed droplets will knock them out of the context menu. I don't know if Photoshop complains if you do this, but it works in the short tem.



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any other places besides .app package?
Authored by: javabeans on Jun 16, '04 11:10:32PM

Just blow out the Samples folder under Photoshop directory (they're sample droplets anyways) and all those .exe in the Open With submenu will disappear....



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