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Cannot open Places from the panel

Asked by Vikas Bist

I have Movie player and SMPlayer. When I try to open files from Places in the panel the Mplaer or SMplayer trying to open them and in Mplaer I have to force quit SMplayer says it cannot open (obvious). On removing these players I am able to open the files. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 (According to . ( This according to. System -> About Ubuntu.) As such I have downloaded 10.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 25 11:28:32 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1938): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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This question was originally filed as bug #694240.

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Vikas Bist (bistvikas) said : 		#1
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Shaswat Nimesh (shaswatnimesh) said : 		#2

Actually its not a bug ,you made your folders to open with Movie player by default

 Try this :

1.Create a folder on your Desktop
2.Go to open with
3.Choose File Browser
4.Tick mark "Remember This application for Folder Files"
5.Open

I think this should help you.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) said : 		#3

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug. There is also a vibrant support community available at http://askubuntu.com and you might consider asking your question there.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) said : 		#4

As suggested by shaw

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