Strange name appearing in right click/open with.

Feek · 3 May 2010 at 16:55

I've installed the trial of Photoshop CS5 to evaluate it and since doing that, my right click/open with menu has gone a bit odd with regards to CS4.

I've cleared out my launch services preferences and cache and even gone as far as a reboot but it's still showing like that. It was OK before.

Is there any way I can edit the way that displays in the menu?

Mullins · 3 May 2010 at 18:58

No idea how to fix it but I am getting this issue too.

Feek · 3 May 2010 at 20:03

Did you only start getting it after installing CS5 or was it like that before?

Mullins · 3 May 2010 at 20:57

It only happened after installing CS5 Design Premium. Only Photoshop seems to be affected the other programs in the suite still have the correct open with information.

NickK · 3 May 2010 at 22:01

Could probably edit the Photoshop Bundle resources plist files if they've not hard coded it.

Feek · 3 May 2010 at 23:34

Yes, that did it. The full string appeared about six times in the main bundle plist so I edited them all down. Strange that it should go like that after installing CS5 though.

Mullins · 4 May 2010 at 14:00

Where abouts is this plist file located Feek?

Feek · 4 May 2010 at 18:32

Go to /HD/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/

Then in that folder there's an Adobe Photoshop CS4 file, right click it and 'show package contents'.

A new Finder window will open, click into Contents and then opein the Info.plist file in your favourite text editor (I use TextMate).

There are a number of instances in that file which start with "<string>11.0" followed by the full text I posted above. I edited each and everyone so they just said (11.0).

Once done, rebuild your launch services, either by something like Onyx or manually by deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist

You may need to then log out or restart.

Job should be a good 'un.

** IMPORTANT **
Take backup copies of any files you edit in case you mess it up!