Odd message pops up everytime I click on home directory and other icons
I was trying to get mpgs to play using Kaffeine 0.8.1-0 on my laptop (SuSE 10.0). Never successful, but I must have clicked on something without realizing it, for now every time I click on my home directory icon a warning box pops us (actually up to 5 instances of the same box) that says: Sorry Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. If I then click on that warning box it goes away and the home directory opens. Similarly, if I click on the icon for the KDE Control Center I get a pop-up box that says: Sorry - Control Center Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. When I click OK on that box it goes away and the KDE Control Center opens. K3B, Kontact, KMail, and Kaffeine all do the same thing. Other programs such as gFTP and KsCD do not give me the pop-up warning box. Can anyone help me eliminate this very annoying problem? After that we'll try to figure out why the heck Kaffeine can't be associated with .mpg or .mpeg video clips in the file association section of KDE Components in the Control Center. Thanks! Gil
On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:00, Gil Weber wrote:
Could not find mime type application/octet-stream
Hi Gil, A little Google research seems to indicate that your file associations (mime-types) have been damaged in some way. You can try correcting this by copying over the contents of ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/ from another (unbroken) user's directory. Just be sure to set correct ownership and permissions afterwards. regards, Carl
On Thu April 6 2006 11:23 pm, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:00, Gil Weber wrote:
Could not find mime type application/octet-stream
Hi Gil,
A little Google research seems to indicate that your file associations (mime-types) have been damaged in some way. You can try correcting this by copying over the contents of ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/ from another (unbroken) user's directory. Just be sure to set correct ownership and permissions afterwards.
regards,
Carl
Carl, I copied the contents from my SuSE 9.3 desktop to the SuSE 10.0 laptop, and the problem went away! I don't know if I've imported other problems by using stuff from 9.3, but at least for the moment things seem OK. Many thanks! Gil
On Friday 07 April 2006 16:11, Gil Weber wrote:
I copied the contents from my SuSE 9.3 desktop to the SuSE 10.0 laptop, and the problem went away! I don't know if I've imported other problems by using stuff from 9.3, but at least for the moment things seem OK.
Not the best way to do it (copying from 9.3). A better way would have been to create a new user in 10.0, login once with it in KDE and copy from that home directory.
On Fri April 7 2006 9:20 am, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Friday 07 April 2006 16:11, Gil Weber wrote:
I copied the contents from my SuSE 9.3 desktop to the SuSE 10.0 laptop, and the problem went away! I don't know if I've imported other problems by using stuff from 9.3, but at least for the moment things seem OK.
Not the best way to do it (copying from 9.3).
A better way would have been to create a new user in 10.0, login once with it in KDE and copy from that home directory.
OK, thanks for this suggestion. I will try to do it. Gil
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