On January 11, 2005 11:41 am, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 06:15 -0500, B McKee wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I was mucking about with file associations a while ago, > > now whenever a KDE app starts (like konq, kmail etc) I get > > #-------------------------------------------------- > > # Could not find mime type > > # application/octet-stream > > #-------------------------------------------------- > > > > Suggestions on what I did? > > Brian > > Brian, I think you did what I did a month or so ago - > you "mucked up" a file association! > > Try running kcontrol > Components > File Associations > application > select "add" at the bottom of the known types list > pick "application" from the pick menu > enter "octet-stream" > leave everything else blank. > > I believe that is what someone told me when I had > the problem. > > Hope this helps,
Nope - didn't seem to 'take' when I tried that. You got me thinking the right way though I think. I found a file /home/me/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/octet-stream.desktop I made a copy, then deleted it. Things seem ok so far - I'll post again if something else appears broken. Thanks Brian
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