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Places tab not working

Asked by natethagreat

Hi,

When I click on the home folder link in the places tab in my menu bar it does not open the link in the file browser liek it usually did. Instead it looks like it tries to open a media file in VLC. Actually none of the links work except for the one called computer. When I click on computer it opens up in file browser and then I can see everything.

What I want if for the other links to open in file browser as well. Not sure how to to this. If anyone can help thank you, thank you, thank you.

In need of help,
Nathan

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Which Ubuntu?
Did you upgrade recently?
Why, because of different or skipped features, e.g. tab 'open with'.

Reference:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/260492
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/366963
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/46377

Workaround #1
Right click on personal folder, tab open with 'folder'.

Workaround #2
Open and check the file (e.g. command in a terminal #in case copy&paste to avoid mistyping):

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

If you've got some weird entries there, rename the file, reboot, logout/in or restart Nautilus.
Rename:

mv ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.old

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnomeTerminal
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

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natethagreat (natethagreat) said : 		#2

Hi Sam,
No this is not an upgrade. I did a full install of Juanty.
If I click on Places>Computer then it will open up a browser and I can get to everything. But I can not open things by going Places>Home Folder or Places>Documents. When I try it opens VLC. I tried clicking on Computer>Filesystem> then Right Clicked on Home> selected open with> then selected open with "file browser". But then when I go Places>HOme folder and click it still does nothing......
Does this help any?

Thanks, Nathan

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natethagreat (natethagreat) said : 		#3

Also this is what I get when I tried putting

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

in a terminal.

I got this>

[Added Associations]
inode/directory=vlc.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;mplayer.desktop;nautilus-browser.desktop;
x-content/blank-dvd=nautilus-cd-burner.desktop;brasero-nautilus.desktop;kde-k3b.desktop;
application/ram=totem.desktop;gedit.desktop;openoffice.org-writer.desktop;realplay.desktop;
application/x-extension-drive=nautilus-browser.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;vlc.desktop;realplay.desktop;totem.desktop;
application/x-extension-link=nautilus-browser.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;
application/octet-stream=nautilus-browser.desktop;

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

Either you rename the file, like described above.
Or change this line:
inode/directory=vlc.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;mplayer.desktop;nautilus-browser.desktop;

into this:
inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;nautilus.desktop;

Please avoid to start applications, files, folders by right click and 'open with' [option].
Why, this will mess up associations and is unnessecary, since 'Linux' recognizes file properties automatically.
A harmless way is to choose 'first' the application and browse within the app to the file to open it.
e.g. start VLC browse from there to the file - start Gedit to open a text file from there and so on.

Follow up to your idea to open via 'Computer', just click on 'any' folder in Nautilus and choose 'open with folder', (helped only in some cases).

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Best pst007x (turone) said : 		#5

I found that: inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;nautilus.desktop;
did not work for me. My "PLACES" shortcuts still did not open any folders.

Instead I used:
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

Then changed the line to or add this line if missing:
inode/directory=nautilus.desktop;

This worked fine for me.

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natethagreat (natethagreat) said : 		#6

Thanks pst007x, that solved my question.