Might the duplicates be the result of Spotlight indexing your backup? If so, exclude the backup by using the Spotlight preferences.
John From: Graham Street <[email protected]> Organization: Streets Ahead Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:28:53 +0100 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [sussex_mug] Re: Duplicate entries in Launch Services Thanks for the suggestion, but I already reset it around once a week. I use Onyx but it does the same as is mentioned in the article. Within a few days, the duplicates/delays are back again. Graham on 6/7/09 14:08 Jason Davies sent the following: > > Graham Street wrote on 6/7/09 at 13:43 > > > >> >> Yes, there are options to 'run shell script before (or after) copy'. >> You're right that it can't be too difficult to write a script to do >> that and I'll take a look. But I wonder if 'launch services' will still >> try to take a look at the apps there while the disk is mounted for >> 10-15 mins a day? >> >> > > > I'm pretty sure there are lots of ways Launch Services can get > confused (I've had periods where I had double duplicates of > everything) so I would look into resetting that before you get > drowned in scripting. > > Personally I would reset it and see if the problem repeats > > <http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
