[kdepim-users] Where to set application details

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 19 January 2010, bill purvis wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Werner Joss wrote:
> > > Am Tuesday 19 January 2010 17:56:07 schrieb bill purvis:
> > > > I've recently tried to open some Word documents which arrived
> > > > as attachments to an email. When I click on them kmail pops up
> > > > a dialog window suggesting I might like to open this with
> > > > OpeOffice 1.1.4! I'm currently running OpenOffice 3.1, so when
> > > > I click on this button nothing happens. I can't find anywhere
> > > > in
> > > > Settings->configure Kmail where this sort of thing is set up,
> > > > and I've not found any references in the
> > > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail directory. Can anyone tell me how to
> > > > change these links?
> > >
> > > System Settings > Advanced > File associations
> >
> > AFAIK personal adjustments made to the file associations are stored
> > in ~/.kde/share/applnk (or maybe nowadays they are stored somewhere
> > in the desktop neutral ~/.local/share/applications). I guess
> > there's an obsolete desktop file which references OpenOffice 1.1.4.
> > Simply delete it.
>
> Many thanks for the suggestion!
>
> Hmmm, I've now scanned through all my hidden files (.??*) using find
> and scanning for OpenOffice1.1.4 and removed all instance that were
> revealed. Also scanned /etc and /usr/share in the same manner and can
> find no references to it, but still it comes up with the same
> message.
>
> Any further ideas?

The information might still be cached. Run kbuildsycoca4 to rebuild the 
system configuration cache.

If that doesn't help then I'm out of ideas.


Regards,
Ingo
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