File associations in nautilus

[Karl-Olov Serrander]

Hi !

I have problems with my file associations in nautilus on a machine
with FC6, fully updated.

When I click on a file.odt created with openoffice-2.0.4 I get:
Cannot open file.odt. The filename indicates this is "ODT Document",
but the contents indicates "java Archive"

I need to rightclick and use "Open with"

What can cause this ? I have other FC6 machines also fully updated,
without the problem.

regrads

[Tim]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:48 +0200, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have problems with my file associations in nautilus on a machine
> with FC6, fully updated.
>
> When I click on a file.odt created with openoffice-2.0.4 I get:
> Cannot open file.odt. The filename indicates this is "ODT Document",
> but the contents indicates "java Archive"
>
> I need to rightclick and use "Open with"
>
> What can cause this ? I have other FC6 machines also fully updated,
> without the problem.

A poor filetype matcing mechanism is the cause of the fault.  Both Java
JAR files and OpenOffice.org files are files packed in a ZIP archive.
The filetyping scheme is too dumb to tell them apart, and claims that
they're whatever it thinks a ZIP file is.

You can try flip flopping the default over to it thinking all such files
are OpenOffice.org files, by right-clicking, opening the properties, and
changing the open-with program.  But then you'll have the reverse
problem, but if you never double-click JAR files, or ZIP files, that
won't matter to you.

[Andrea Mastellone]

Tim wrote:
> > When I click on a file.odt created with openoffice-2.0.4 I get:
> > Cannot open file.odt. The filename indicates this is "ODT Document",
> > but the contents indicates "java Archive"

If you have a Sun Java RPM

->

This is a common problem due to a bug in the Sun Java 1.6.01 version
rpm. Googling you can find a lot of solutions. Obviously, it is
recommended an upgrade to 1.6.02 version...

AndreArtu