[ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"

[Miles]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Ubuntu South African Local Community
<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: [ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:11:36 +0200

How does this assignment of application to files work? At one stage I
did an "Open with" Calibre of a .pdf file and (I presume" left the
"Always use..." box ticked. . Since then, every time I click on a .pdf
file Calibre grabs it - this despite my trying to reassign them to the
document viewer. I have a similar problem with bash script files - it
has decided that AbiWord is the correct application to open them when
I click on them and select "Open with". Gedit - my preferred
application does not even appear as an option despite my going to "Use
other application" and selecting it.

I am not sure when these problems started, but they have been going on
for some time. I have been running 10.04 since it was released and the
problem was certainly not there from the beginning. It has really
become a nuisance since calibre started grabbing all the .pdf fines -
my Calibre library is beginning to have lots of strange "eBooks" in it
that I am not likely to ever load onto my reader!


Hi Bill. right click and open with other application, then choose what
you want to use to open them. untick the remeber this block if you only
want to go that route once
Hope this helps
Miles