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Image viewer opening USB/removable media by default

Asked by Paul Kusmanoff

This problem started about 6 months ago, I double-clicked on the USB icon that had appeared on my Ubuntu 10.10 desktop, normally this would open it with the file manager. Instead, double-clicking it opened the "Eye of the GNOME image viewer", that said "No images found in: file:///media/EC3F-AFCA". Having upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, the issue still appears when clicking on the USB icon in the unity interface. Instead, to open up the documents on a USB stick, I have to open up the home folder, then navigate through the file manager to the icon for my USB. I tried looking through preferred applications to see if somehow the default program to open usb's was changed, but there was no option to change that anyway.

A similar problem to this happens when I go to the "downloads" page in Chromium. I click on the button "Show in folder", and instead of opening file manager to that folder, it opens image viewer at shows the images I have downloaded, even though not everything I've downloaded is an image.

Does this mean I have somehow changed the way the file manager opens certain items by assuming they're a picture and using picture viewer to open it, even though it isn't formatted as an image? If so, how may I change it back to using file manager and not image viewer?

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Best Chris (fabricator4) said : 		#1

Yes, you've inadvertently changed the default operation to Eye of Gnome.

To change the default right click on the icon and select "open with other application" then select "File Browser" or Nautilus. Make sure the box for "Remember this applications for..." and click OK.

The File Browser (Nautilus) will now be the default action when you click on the device icon. There is some variation in the operation depending on whether you are right clicking on a device icon or the mount point for that device.

Chris

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Paul Kusmanoff (paulkusmanoff-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Thanks a lot! I just had to create a shortcut to the usb, then change what opens that shortcut, and it fixed the problem with the Google Chrome downloads page as well.

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Paul Kusmanoff (paulkusmanoff-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Thanks Chris, that solved my question.