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Title: Lost file association
Post by: Anonymous on January 07, 2004, 10:46:18 am

Hi all,

I\'m fairly new to the Zaurus -- I got an SL55500 in December, and I don\'t think I\'ve stopped playing with it since, the thing\'s incredibly useful!

Anyway, I appear to have somehow lost the file association between *.doc and the word processor app. I\'ve searched high and low for some sort of ini or rc file where file associations are maintained in order to repair whatever it was that I did, but I\'ve not had any luck. Does anyone know if there\'s a simple remedy for my problem, or should I just reinstall the word app? (I\'m running the 3.10 updated ROM).

Thanks very much in advance,

/ewen

Title: Lost file association
Post by: tumnus on January 07, 2004, 11:27:03 am

Filename extensions are associated with mime types with the file /home/QtPalmtop/etc/mime.types

In turn mime types are associated with applications via the .desktop file of the application under one of the sub-directories under /home/QtPalmtop/apps, which also define the tab icons.

Title: Lost file association
Post by: Anonymous on January 07, 2004, 12:03:24 pm

Cool -- worked nicely after a reboot -- thanks!