Octet-Stream - Mime Type Not Found [Solved]

[Don C. Weber]

Okay, here is what I found out on my own.  I went to the following url which 
explains the extension types for all the mime-types (at least a partial 
list).

http://www.duke.edu/websrv/file-extensions.html

I sifted through all the entries and added the file extentions that they 
included in the following manner.

Open "Control Center" select "File Associations" click the "application" group 
of the tree and make sure the octet-stream is not included.  Click the 
"Add..." button and change group to "application".  Now select the 
"octet-stream" entry and add the following file extentions.

*.bin
*.class
*.dms
*.exe
*.lha
*.lzh

I also put "octet-stream" in the Description text box and did not add any 
applictions to the "Application Preference Order" area (I would bet that you 
should not add any preferred applications as this might mess stuff up even 
further.).  

I have not tried this with multiple users yet so I am not sure if you have to 
do this for everybody.  I have also noticed that I am not given the option to 
remove this mime-type (the "Remove.." button next to the "Add..." button 
remains disabled) now that I have included it.  If somebody can tell me why 
or in what file that this information is stored (as I have not found any 
reference to it) it would be much appreciated.


I hope this helps somebody later as I could find very little on this 
information.

Thanks,
Cutaway

On Friday 27 February 2004 07:10 am, Don C. Weber wrote:
> Okay, I'll put this out there one more time before I move onto the next
> forum. Has anybody had this problem and not been able to add octet-stream
> to the file associations?  Everytime I had it it just disappears.  I have
> done this as root as well with the same result.
>
> Thank you,
> Cutaway
>
> On Tuesday 24 February 2004 10:00 pm, Don C. Weber wrote:
> > I recently updated to kde-3.2.0 and I started receiving this error.
> >
> > Could not find mime type.
> > application/octet-stream
> >
> > I have tried the default solution which is to go into file
> > associations->applications and add octet-stream but for some reason it
> > never saves it.  I have tried this as a normal user and as the root user.
> >
> > Please help:  This is getting very annoying and nobody seems to have a
> > solution.
> >
> > On a side note:  My task bar seems to be slightly off.  When I click on
> > the K button and the menu pops up the right hand most part of the bar is
> > missing. I can just barely see the arrows that are suppose to be there.
> > Has anybody seen this behavior in kde-3.2?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Don
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