Odd problem with "places" area - Page 2

marcrblevins · #16 14th July 2008, 01:07 AM

I'm out of ideas to. Gnome doesn't keep it all in one place. If you do a 'ls -a', there are so many hidden directories. Phew! KDE keeps it in one place, .kde per users.

Or maybe its not per users, its the whole system? Like, add a new user, and see if the glitch is there as well.

mangurt · #17 14th July 2008, 11:41 AM

I created a new user last night, and did not have any of the problems, so I am just going to use the new user.
Thanks for all the help.

marcrblevins · #18 14th July 2008, 05:48 PM

Really?
Can you please run this?:
[code]
su -
diff -r /home/gooduser /home/baduser
[/code2]
Change the username to the actual users.

Really wanted to know where its stored.

mangurt · #19 14th July 2008, 07:24 PM

I'm at work right now, but when I get home, I can type that in and see.

Only problem I have now is getting everything from the bad user area (permission wise).

mangurt · #20 15th July 2008, 02:00 AM

Wow, that did not work at all.....basically went all crazy and just listed stuff in symbols.

marcrblevins · #21 15th July 2008, 03:45 AM

Waving the white flag.

mangurt · #22 2nd August 2008, 05:47 AM

Greetings all,
I am getting an odd error when I try to open something via places.

I am running fedora 9 i386 (fresh install). When I go to a folder under places, VLC starts. I posted about this about a month ago...but I ended up doing a fresh install and forgetting about it.

Here'e the error code I get now when I try to open a folder under places:

Unrecognized format for '/home/ed/Download/easylife-20080524-1.fc9.noarch.rpm'
Unrecognized format for '/home/ed/Download/flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm'
Unrecognized format for '/home/ed/Download/NROWS_IDTT(CNSP only).doc'
Unrecognized format for '/home/ed/Download/NROWS_IDTT(other appropriations).doc'

Now, these errors come up in the error console for VLC. Any ideas? Or should I post this to bugzilla?
Thanks

#23 2nd August 2008, 06:14 AM

Threads merged.

Wayne

mangurt · #24 5th August 2008, 12:06 AM

Greetings, Ok, I am really, really scratching my head here. I created a new user, set everything up, and things were working great! I was playing a DVD for my son tonight, and after shutting VLC down, I clicked on Places, Download, and VLC started again. So I uninstalled VLC via YUM. Things worked fine until I opened a file I had in Places/Video with kplayer, and now when I click on Places/pick folder kplayer starts up!!! Any, any ideas at all?
Thanks for all the help!

dtseiler · #25 5th August 2008, 04:20 PM

[cross-posting from my other thread]

Found my problem after recursively grepping my entire home dir. In my case, Places menu entries were opening audacious rather than nautilus, it might apply to you.

The file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list contained these lines, and ONLY these lines:

[Added Associations]
inode/directory=fedora-audacious.desktop;

I renamed this file with a .bak suffix, and voila things worked as expected. I have no idea what created this file or added that association, what is to stop it from happening again.

leadgolem · #26 6th August 2008, 07:54 AM

I've been having this issue for a while, just checked and I have a similar line in mimeapps.list.

Code:

inode/directory=livna-vlc-usercustom.desktop;

I removed this line entirely and, voila! Now places works correctly. I would really like to know how that happened though...

arshad3m · #27 8th August 2008, 03:27 PM

my problem got solved. and i want to inform what i did, so others who are having this same problem can solve their problem.

open the folder from my computer. ( the folder which cannot be accessed through "places". ) and right click somewhere in the folder. in 'openwith' change to "open folder".

enjoy.
thank you.

dtseiler · #28 8th August 2008, 03:37 PM

I figured out what happened.

When browsing my Music folder in nautilus, I wanted to play the contents of a given directory in audacious. So I right-click on the dir and say "Open with Other Application" and pick audacious. This does what I want and starts playing all the mp3s in that folder and below in audacious. However this also creates the mimeapps.list file with these contents:

[Added Associations]
inode/directory=fedora-audacious.desktop;

I just tested this and it behaved just as I described. Now when I select Places->Home it opens audacious. Removing that file (or those entries) fixes this again.

So it seems nautilus thinks I want it to open ALL folders like that. I think this is a bug.

dtseiler · #29 8th August 2008, 03:42 PM

Just an FYI that I'm going try to re-open the gnome bug I originally filed on this, since the problem is (I believe) with nautilus.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546306

mangurt · #30 29th August 2008, 10:01 PM

Brilliant!!! I deleted those files listed there and things are back to normal!!!
Thanks!