Problems with ubuntu and default file manager

[Maayan Eshed]

Just a thought.. have you tried to uninstall and reinstall chrome?
I would use command line, since this way i know the configuration has also
been removed.
to find how the chrome package is called :

$sudo apt-cache show chrom* | grep Package

lets say the Package is chromium-browser. then you go:

$sudo apt-get remove --purge chromium-browser

you might get some notices about what you want or dont want to remove and of
corse should decide based on the idea that anything that might contain a
configuration info should also be removed.

after removal is complete, reinstall:

$sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

hope this helps.

cheers

maayan.

2011/5/16 Nitzan Brumer <nitzanb at gmail.com>

> What a headache!
> I've upgraded my Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 - and what a big mistake it was.
> It took some time and I've managed to handle most of the things but there
> is one problem that I cant manage to fix.
>
> On the first time I've opened chrome on the 11.04 I've tried to open a csv
> file and a popup appeared asking with what to open the file.
> Didn't think it over and I typed calc - thinking about libreoffice calc
> (the spreadsheet program)
> Now, any file I try to open from google chrome (but not only from chrome) I
> get a popup saying:
> "
> Failed to execute default File Manager.
> Failed to execute child process "calc" (No such file or directory).
> "
> The same thing happens if I right-click a folder and choose open with ->
> file manager.
>
> I've tried everything to override this krap but with no success.
> Its not under chrome settings
> I can't change it through settings->default applications
> Its not under ~/.local/share/applications
>
> And I just can't open the files unless I choose save as and open them from
> the file manager
> The problem is that not all the sites gives you a save as link and some
> just downloads directly to chrome cache.
>
> Help, Please.
>
> Nitzan Brumer
> Http://n2b.org
>
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