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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Tom McQ wrote:

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


I'm glad the simple fix worked out for you. Hopefully this problem was
only a one of a kind problem. I really don't know for sure where the
information is stored and hopefully never need to know.


Jim

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