[Resolved?] Re: Nautilus file .exe file associations
- From: NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:26:40 -0800
Matthew Kuiken wrote:
Anybody?
After a little more research I found that I am not the only one with
this problem, see:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=cab6e36d1f572ba0cdd6dff5ba23d412&t=187777&highlight=Nautilus+%2B.exe+file+association
[File association with .exe]
I'm not into deleting entire .local directories so I'd prefer to figure
out the problem some other way.
Anybody?
I don't have this problem, as I don't use wine, but I would bet that
deleting ~/.local/share/mime would do the trick, rather than needing to
delete the whole tree. This will probably still require you to set up
any mime types you changed locally for yourself, but would not lose menu
entries and the like.
To test the theory, I would recommend moving the directory somewhere
else, log out, and log back in, then check if nautilus still has a
problem. If there are settings that are lost by this, and you really
want them back, you can just move the folder back from where you moved
it to. Always back things like this up before you try the nuclear option...
-Matt
What I did is copy the ~/.local directory to a backup folder, then
instead of deleting the original, I renamed the ~/.local/share/ folder
to ~/.local/share_old/. I also renamed the subfolder ~/.local/share/mime
to ~/.local/share/mime_old. That worked, even after a reboot. All the
Applications menus are intact & working, all the file associations seem
to now be working and correct, and double-clicking the applicable files
in Nautilus brings up the proper associated applications.
Now I guess the question would be: why did that work?
Taking a look through the GNOME bugzilla reports for 2.13/2.14 (I have
2.14.3) shows a considerable amount of opened bugs for Nautilus (136):
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/gnome-214-report.html
GNOME 2.15/2.16 shows 46
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/gnome-216-report.html). So perhaps it
is a GNOME/Nautilus problem rather than Ubuntu related.
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