[G4] How to Reset 10.4's Get Info "Open with" Option

[Richard M. Kriss]

Steve,

Bingo!  You hit the nail right on the head.  I opened the Disk Utility and
dismounted (un-mounted or whatever) two of the three hard drives in this G4.
Then tried the Get Info and 'Open with' thing and it worked perfect.  I have
three hard drives in this machine and that was the problem.  I now need to
figure out how to keep two shut down until I need them.

Thanks again Steve!

Dick


On 8/8/05 1:39 PM, "Steve Goldstein" <sng at cox.net> wrote:

> I get it, too.  It does indeed take a bit longer than before, or so it seems.
> My "take" in the matter was that it was finding copies of the applications on
> other mounted hard drives (because I am a pack rat and never throw away
> smaller-capacity drives that I replace, but put them in external cases
> instead, I can have as many as four copies of an application that are
> discoverable).  But, that was only a guess, and I never bothered to unmount
> the other drives to check the theory.
> 
> --Steve
> 
> At 1:08 PM -0500 8/8/05, Richard M. Kriss wrote:
>> I have no problems getting the Finder "Get Info" to open; however, when I
>> click on the "Open with" button I get the spinning disc for what seems like
>> forever.  It then presents a long list of all kinds of applications with
>> many dupes. I  have to wait for the whole list to get to show up to let me
>> select another application - the last option.
>> ...
>> I don't remember OS 10.3 having this weirdness. Anyone else having issues
>> with the Get Info "Open with" button?
>