Strange Filezilla launch problem

[tomcloyd]

Situation: I am returning to Kubuntu after an extended stay with Pop!_OS. Kubuntu is amazing, in comparison. So happy to be back. But I'm still trying to set up my usual work environment. Concerning Filezilla, I have two problems, and neither seems to be about Filezilla itself:

1. From backups, I had an installation of Filezilla in my dir "/home/tomc//programs". Installing Kubuntu, and restoring my user account from backups, I removed that Filezilla installation and the reference to it in the launch menu. I installed Filezilla from the Ubuntu packages. The launch menu now tries to launch it by calling "filezilla", which makes sense. But then I get this error message:

"Could not find the program /home/tomc/programs/filezilla3/bin/filezilla"

How can it be looking for the program where I manually installed it (but manually removed it), and how can this have been invoked by "filezilla"? I never ever set it up to launch by calling "filezilla", and it should NOT be looking in that directory!

How do I fix this?

2. When I launch Filezilla from the command line with /usr/bin/filezilla, it launches appropriately. Inserting that into the launch menu and trying to launch using that gets the error message above.

I am utterly baffled by this and don't know where to start in fixing it.

[oshunluvr]

If you're launching from the Menu, edit the menu entry to "/usr/bin/filezilla", or are you saying that doesn't work?

[tomcloyd]

Thanks for your response. All is well, now. I cannot say why, but in recent day I've been making a lot of changes, upgrades, etc., and most problems I had earlier are just gone. A good outcome, even if I cannot explain it more precisely!

[oshunluvr]

The Gods of Linux move in mysterious ways, LOL

[Snowhog]

All is well, now. I cannot say why, but in recent day I've been making a lot of changes, upgrades, etc., and most problems I had earlier are just gone. A good outcome, even if I cannot explain it more precisely!

I'm going to guess, that during your "making a lot of changes, upgrades, etc.,...", that you performed at least one reboot. That often cleans things up.

[tomcloyd]

Possibly. At this point I don't recall. I'm very aware of the power of a mere reboot, and am glad it's an easily achieved first (and last!) response to many problems!