{"id":7343,"date":"2013-04-23T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:03:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:03:34","slug":"rebuilding-the-launch-services-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/rebuilding-the-launch-services-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding the Launch Services Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2013\/04\/22\/launch-services-woes\/\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2013\/04\/22\/launch-services-woes\/\"><p>So, the next time you&rsquo;re seeing general slowness on your Mac, don&rsquo;t forget to give Launch Services a kick in the pants. Guaranteed to be more effective than zapping your PRAM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The current command is:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2013\/04\/22\/launch-services-woes\/\"><pre>\/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/CoreServices.framework\/Versions\/A\/Frameworks\/LaunchServices.framework\/Versions\/A\/Support\/lsregister -kill -seed -r<\/pre><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&rsquo;t remember the latest path to <tt>lsregister<\/tt>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siegel\/status\/246640703579508736\">Rich Siegel<\/a> recommends using <tt>locate<\/tt> (although that requires that the <tt>locate.database<\/tt> be in order).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Hockenberry: So, the next time you&rsquo;re seeing general slowness on your Mac, don&rsquo;t forget to give Launch Services a kick in the pants. Guaranteed to be more effective than zapping your PRAM. The current command is: \/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/CoreServices.framework\/Versions\/A\/Frameworks\/LaunchServices.framework\/Versions\/A\/Support\/lsregister -kill -seed -r If you don&rsquo;t remember the latest path to lsregister, Rich Siegel recommends using locate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[438,30],"class_list":["post-7343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-launchservices","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7344,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}