Stop folders opening with different application than the file manager
Solution 1
Answer edited out from the question
Solution was obvious, in Nautilus I select a folder, right click, Open with other application, and pick "Files" which is apparently the name for Nautilus. Now that set the default back... until next time! I guess this is a cautionary tale.
Solution 2
On Ubuntu 14.04, this one works for me:
xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory
Original answer comes from here and here
The command above adds a line inode/directory=nautilus.desktop
to your .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
Works instantly without logging out/restart.
Solution 3
In your home folder go to .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
It is a hidden file. You can unhide it with the following keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + H .
You then need to modify the line inode/directory=movie-player.desktop;
or something like that, to inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;
and save the file.
Solution 4
My original problem was that right-click "Open Containing Folder" didn't work for me in Banshee or File Roller on Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit. The dialog was a Shotwell dialog saying "unable to open folder". I tried deleting ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
but that just forgot all my default application settings and had no effect on my original problem.
Here's what worked (I marked some things as "No Effect" meaning that I think these steps are unnecessary, but I can't be sure):
I uninstalled shotwell
sudo apt-get remove shotwell
then reinstalled it againsudo apt-get install shotwell
. Now "Open Containing Folder" opened wrongly in Disk Usage Analyzer (baobab)No Effect: I added
nautilus.desktop
to this line inmimeapps.list
:inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;nautilus.desktop;
No Effect: I tried uninstalling and re-installing nautalis
sudo apt-get remove nautilus nautilus-folder-handler
sudo apt-get install nautilus nautilus-sendto nautilus-share
I suspect this was a waste of time.I uninstalled Disk Usage Analyzer
sudo apt-get remove baobab
and reinstalled itapt-get install baobab
and that fixed it!
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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postfuturist over 1 year
After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10, I once right-clicked on a folder and told it to open the folder with Movie Player ("Open with other application...").
No harm done there, right? Nope, now Ubuntu opens folders with Movie Player instead of Nautilus. If I plug in a thumb drive, Movie Player opens.
If I click on the trash icon... Movie Player! The default action for opening a folder has somehow become Movie Player. Clicking on the "Home Folder" icon still opens Nautilus and opening a folder in Nautilus stays in Nautilus, but other links to folders automatically open Movie Player. How can I change this back?
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Admin over 7 yearsthis is present in very recent systems too
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Admin over 7 years
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Admin almost 6 yearsA bug against gnome-control-center is filed.
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Admin over 7 years
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pim about 6 yearsThis is not an answer for this question.
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takeshin about 5 yearsIt does not work for the latest version anymore.
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theferrit32 almost 5 years
nautilus.desktop
has been renamed toorg.gnome.Nautilus.desktop