Leopard: disable “Open with” previous versions of applications in Time Machine?
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 - 4:10PM
So Leopard does this really clever thing where, if you don’t exclude it from making backups of your Applications directory, it will let you do a right click / “open with” and select previous versions of apps Time Machine has backed up. The rub: you can’t turn it off, and if your Time Machine drive is connected but not spun up, it’ll wait until the drive gets going before populating that list and giving you the menu. Anyone discovered how to disable it (short of excluding the Applications directory from backup)?
Also, big ups to Conrad for sharing Stamatiou’s really useful OS X hack for turning off safe-sleep mode.
What were your MBP safe-sleep times with the SSD like? With 4 gigs of RAM mine and a 5400 spinner it was around a minute.
Comment by Paul Stamatiou — Tuesday, December 25, 2007 @ 9:40 pm
Hard to tell — it’s completely silent. And being nigh vibration-proof, it’s not a concern until I have to go back to my platter-based drive.
Comment by Ryan Block — Wednesday, December 26, 2007 @ 9:13 am
Have you had any joy finding a solution to this?
This has started to really bother me, and I’m surprised by the lack of coverage online.
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Comment by Tomas — Friday, January 18, 2008 @ 3:34 am
I too, would like to find a solution to this annoyance. Please let us know if you find a fix. Thanks.
Comment by Scott — Thursday, January 24, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
I’ve found that doing the following seems to work
1. Add the external Drive to the EXCLUDE section of Spotlight preferences and REBUILD the Spotlight index
2. Use the Command line
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
3. Restart Finder
All covered here
http://mac4translators.blogspot.com/2007/12/open-with-too-many-applications.html
Comment by Eoin — Wednesday, January 30, 2008 @ 4:25 am
Eoin,
Thanks for the reference. After a few weels of living with my own hack, I found that even though the Finder behaved pretty much as expected (I don’t have multiple versions of an app in the “Open with” menu), it looks like Mail gets its information from somewhere else.
I’ve installed Onyx and I frequently run it to clean up the LaunchServices db. It is easier than to remember the command line. I just did that today and Mail has reverted to a sane behavior. But I really wish I knew why it does not behave as Finder in that respect…
Comment by Jean-Christophe Helary — Monday, February 4, 2008 @ 7:29 am