[PLUG] Ubuntu 14.04 -- Nautilus treats network folders as videos

David dafr+plug at dafr.us
Fri Jun 10 17:12:28 UTC 2016


On 06/09/2016 11:04 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> When I connect from my Ubuntu 14.04 desktop to my Linux Mint laptop, the
> two shared items are displayed in a Nautilus window. When I double click
> on the Public folder, instead of opening the folder in Nautilus, it
> tries to play it with Video and, of course, fails. Going the other way
> works -- I can connect to my desktop from my laptop and move around in
> the expected way.
>
> Any ideas what's going on, or what foo to use to search for this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>

Does this happen on _just_ network shares, or all folders? You could 
always try right clicking on the folder and see what it has in the 
pop-up window for hints on why it might be using a non-sensical application.

Nothing else is coming to me, sorry.

dafr



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