"Open With" showing applications from other drive?

[TripleYoThreat]

Hi, I have two installations of mac, on separate hard drives. The old one is Yosemite, and I barely touch it nowadays. My main, the Sierra installation, recognizes apps on the other drive when I use open with. It's bad because a lot of those old versions of applications can't even open on this drive. I know there's a way to reset the open with menu, but I believe I've tried it and it didn't fix this.

Any solution to this? Thanks in advance! EDIT: i'd like to add that this issue plagues spotlight too, where it is most annoying. if i write quicktime and press enter, it will most likely open the older version, which just bounces back an error.

 

[BurgDog]

Any solution to this? Thanks in advance! EDIT: i'd like to add that this issue plagues spotlight too, where it is most annoying. if i write quicktime and press enter, it will most likely open the older version, which just bounces back an error.

It's a feature, I guess, to find all apps on your system. It is annoying and I just eject the unused disk to stop this from happening.

 

[TripleYoThreat]

Any info on how I can fix the spotlight issue? I suppose I could eject the drive or even disconnect it, but there should be some easier way. I also occasionally access that drive so I'd rather not.

 

[Fishrrman]

I "fixed the Spotlight issue" -- by DISABLING it, forever!