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

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Fri Jun 10 17:47:43 UTC 2016


On 06/10/2016 10:12 AM, David wrote:
> 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?

Just network shares.

> 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.

I tried Open With Files, but got the same results.

> Nothing else is coming to me, sorry.

No problem. Thanks for sharing.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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