MIME type not found - application/octet-stream

[nejode]

After changing the default application for text files, every time I try to open almost all type of files (including .desktop files), I get a dialog saying: "MIME type not found - application/octet-stream"... and the file opens ok with it's default application. Man, it gets pretty annoying to be closing little dialog boxes all the time!!
If I use the Find utility, I get so many dialogs that the application crashes.

Does anybody have any idea of how to fix this annoyance?... help appreciated!

[jankushka]

Re: MIME type not found - application/octet-stream

look, i don't really have an answer.

i guess you've already checked, in files associations,
that "octet-stream" is still there in the known types,
under "application".

i'm only really wild guessing here...based on the error message you get...

just in case, my entry reads:
category: application
type: octet-stream
general action: none
embedding: ask whether to save to disk instead

really hth
cheers

[javierrivera]

Re: MIME type not found - application/octet-stream

One possible solution will be to delete the /home/user/.kde/share/mimelnk folder. Then log out and log in. A new one will be created with the defaults.

You will loose any manual change that you have made, but you will probably get rid of the dialogues.

Javier.

[nejode]

Re: MIME type not found - application/octet-stream

Thanks jankushka and javierrivera:

Somehow the octet-stream entry got deleted in file associations...I added it and everything went beautifully. No more error messages.
About javierrivera's idea,: I was was giving it a thought because I saw the octet-stream.desktop icon inside the ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application directory... maybe that could have worked too... I'll keep that in mind.

gracias... nejode

[jankushka]

Re: MIME type not found - application/octet-stream

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