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Doubled "Open With" Button

Aug 29, 2005 8:48PM PDT

Hello everyone. I am a new user of Mac. Please help me to solve the problem below.

Two games are included in Mac Mini and I believe that most of you have tried the game called Nanosaur. After I saved the game yesterday to the desktop, everything was still okay. But when I right click on the save data today, I found that there are two identical buttons in the "open with" tab: Nanosaur and Nanosaur(default). I don't see such thing happen for other types of files. Is it because I done something wrong? How can I solve this problem?

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Solve the Problem
Aug 29, 2005 9:57PM PDT

There is no problem to solve. You will find that when you right click on a file that sometimes you will see the (default) program to open it with, along with a list of other programs. The default program will be in the list.
One way to prevent this from appearing is to stop Right clicking the icons Happy

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Sorry, I still don't understnad.
Aug 29, 2005 10:03PM PDT

I have tested a few types of files. They all have a default application in the "open with" tab. But why do the default applications of some types of file are not repeated in the list?

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I have no idea
Aug 29, 2005 10:55PM PDT

It is not something that is a problem. The system works the way the system works.
It is nothing that you have done or caused to happen. Double clicking the icon should make the parent program launch and you get on with the game.

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