MacOSXHint: A fix for a very slow contextual menu in the Finder

[BigGuynRusty]

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?s...7035346486&lsrc=osxh

BGnR

[Jimmypoo]

I don't understand why anyone would remove a file they could just ZIP and it is always there for expansion later on.

[PeterB]

Hmmm... I'm not having THAT particular problem, but I am having sort of a related one. I have so many apps installed on my various hard drives, that whenever I use the "Open With", or do a Get Info and then use the pulldown menu to try to get the item to open with a different app, I get a SBOD that lasts for a good five minutes, usually requiring me to force quit the Finder. Maybe someone here knows a solution to this. (Removing all my apps is NOT a possibility.)

[BigGuynRusty]

Why are your apps scattered across drives?

BGnR

[PeterB]

BGnR, because I have multiple drives with different OS's on 'em. When you do an "Open With", it even includes all the OS9 apps that something can be opened with, too.

[BigGuynRusty]

PeterB Wrote:
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> BGnR, because I have multiple drives with
> different OS's on 'em. When you do an "Open
> With", it even includes all the OS9 apps that
> something can be opened with, too.

Experimenting?
I don't understand why you would do this.

BGnR

[PeterB]

BGnR, why WOULDN'T you have different OS's on different volumes?

That allows you to boot into different OS versions, which allow you to use version-specific software... for example, stuff that will only run in OS9, or in 10.3 but not 10.4, etc.

And if you're only talking OS9, I have tons of OS9 apps. When I do an "Open with" in OS9, I do get a ton of options too. Now add to this all the options in OS X, and there are a LOT of options.

[PeterB]

BGnR (and anyone else), if you're curious, I just solved my own problem through this post:

http://www.osxhelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=24&sid=2308891c47a1ce12d2a108204b2d4e08

... the problem is/was at least partially that there were many, many duplicate items in my list. (I still do get a ton of things to open, say, a JPEG with-- but at least it doesn't send me into a spinning beachball whenever I do it...)