Re: File associations problem

[deeno ukf net]

That did it!! Thanks.

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 00:34 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 23:44 +0100, deeno ukf net wrote:
> > Can someone help with this, I must be missing something pretty obivous,
> > but I've upgraded to Gnome 2.8 on fedora 2, and have now lost all my
> > file associations in Nautilus. Clicking on any file type results in
> > 'Can't display location -> There was an error launching the
> > application.'
> > 
> > Also, the 'Open With' tab in the properties dialog just shows 'No
> > applications selected'. When I try to add a new association, nothing
> > gets added into the list, no matter how many times I try.
> > 
> > Any suggestions please....this is driving me crazy as my system is
> > pretty useless without this working.
> 
> In addition to Alexander's comments, you might also need to run the
> update-desktop-database command.  It seems a lot of apps aren't calling
> this during make install.
> 
> --
> Shaun
> 
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