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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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 > > -- > diplomacy, n: > Lying in state. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
