Jim,
Thank you much for the simple idea. I opened the File Browser (which apparently is part of
or is Nautilus) window for my home directory, selected the Up function to switch to /home,
right-clicked on my home folder, selected Open with other application, then selected File
Browser. Once I did that, all items in my Places menu began working again. Amazing.
I still don't know where Nautilus stores the file associations, how file associations
for the "file:" protocol got corrupted on my computer, or why this Open with
other application created a permanent fix. But your solution worked and fixed the problem
at hand -- at least for the "file:" protocol.
Many thanks.
-Tom
----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette(a)insight.rr.com>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:28:09 AM
Subject: Re: Error help: There is no default action associated with this location
Tom McQ wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Thank you for the response. I think the bug you pointed out
is
unrelated to my problem but it was worth a try. When I execute
the
gnomevfs-ls command on a directory, including "file:///home/tom", it
works
fine
and displays my home directory contents.
>
> I'm pretty certain my problem has something to do with
URL
registration used by the GNOME "Places" menu. The error message sounds
like
some
GNOME main-menu application tries to figure out what to do with
a
"file:" URL, and doesn't know that it should launch Nautilus. If I
execute
"nautilus file:///home/tom" from the command line, Nautilus
launches
fine.
>
> My solution might be as simple as figuring out where the
GNOME
launcher associates URLs with applications. I have looked around for how
to
re-associate Nautilus with the file: protocol, but so far no luck.
I
have also had no luck figuring out what went wrong -- what
overwrote
whatever used to exist -- and if there is an easy way to return to
the
status quo ante.
>
> -Tom
>
> P.S.
>
> Sorry for the delayed response. My spam filter grabbed your email
and
just 3 others from fedora-list and decided they were spam.
>
>
I noticed that when I send messages to other accounts related to
Outlook, including URLs in messages usually flags a spam. Maybe the
URL
inclusion flagged the message as spam.
Anyway, a google search for MIME types in nautilus flagged a package
called shared-mime-info. Maybe the file is
/usr/share/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc
I'm not sure where the info actually is located.
I usually add MIME types by right clicking on the file type
highlighted
and add an associated application within nautilus. It seems to do the
trick for me. For locations, it probably would not work. Then again!
Jim
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