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Anonymous
Mar 09, 2004, 05:40 PM
I have several system volumes on my computer (I keep a 10.1 and a 10.2 in addition to my current Panther system.

The Open With... submenu shows several copies of each application, so I can't know which copy is going to be started. For example I see three copies of "Fireworks".

What would be useful: add the name of the volume to the app name if there are multiple copies of the app in the menu (or for that matter, add any differentiator). This way I could see:

FireWorks -- /Applications
FireWorks -- /Volumes/Jaguar/Applications
FireWorks -- /Volumes/Puma/Applications

Even better, display the version info along with the name. This is especially important with Apple apps: you can have an old system with an outdated version of iPhoto for example, and you want to make sure you'll "Open With..." the latest one.

neilio
Mar 09, 2004, 10:17 PM
There does need to be a better way to handle this, but the path won't be going into the contextual menu - you could end up with massively huge contextual menus for applications that are located deep inside of a hierarchy...

I'll mention this to Steve and see if there's some way to work around this. Thanks for the feedback!

Neil