Hope this proves useful to whomever finds this thread. I eventually located the legacy version of VLC by running the older version, examining the process in Activity Monitor and listing the Open Files and Ports... https://i.imgur.com/ODhI1KV.jpg Simple job to then delete. https://i.imgur.com/HrMevnH...
Hijacking an old thread here, but the issue is the same.
I only have one instance of VLC in my /Applications folder (nothing in ~/Applications). I've tried the Terminal command mentioned in the above link, but still have the issue...