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Gnome Places try to open archiver instead of file manager

Asked by Dave Murray

When I pull down "Places" from the windo bar, if I click a place like "Home", "Documents", etc. instead of the folder opening in a file manager I get Archive Manager and a message that says "Could not create the archive Archive type not supported."

If I am using a file manager, clicking folders opens them. How do you un-associate places with archive manager?

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Dave Murray (dmurray110) said : 		#1

Opps, un-associate with archive manager. it should open the folder in a file manager.

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

Try this.
Rename mimeapps.list and restart X (logout-in).
mv ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list-old
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/133505

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Dave Murray (dmurray110) said : 		#3

You put me onto the right track quickly, thank you Sam.

In ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list I found:

[Added Associations]
inode/directory=file-roller.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;gedit.desktop;thunderbird.desktop;

and changed it to:

[Added Associations]
inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;gedit.desktop;thunderbird.desktop;

Logged out/in. Problem solved. Thank you so much for the location/name of the file that keeps that!