For a few days now every time I click on Places in the TopMenu, a Brasero screen opens up instead with the heading Brasero - New Data Disc Project and has a small popup screen over it asking whether files should be fully windows compatible. The defaulted image file shown at the bottom of the Brasero screen for burning is /home/thane/brasero.iso , which failed and needed to be aborted a few days ago. Things I've tried so far:
-Completely remove brasero (about 4 times so far) and restart computer.
-Scour the computer for any files I could find with brasero in the filename.
-Attempt to remove the brasero.iso from the brasero screen -- it won't let me
- I've tried but I don't see any log files for brasero, although I've no idea, what they would be called. Nothing obvious to me in /var/logs.
-I can successfully use brasero to copy another disc, but as soon as I click on Places afterwards, up comes brasero again instead.
-If I remove brasero (using synaptic), I can then access my directories fine, after clicking on Places in the TopMenu. But as soon as I reinstall brasero, the default disc burning software, which came with 10.10, I'm right back with problems. No idea what to try next. Thanks.

Can you post your .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file?

I am jumping the gun here, but I know for a fact that if you run nautilus from a terminal, it will work without a hitch. This is due to the mimetype handlers; perform the following:

Once you open that file with gedit, make the contents of the file reflect the following:

Cheers,

Josh

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Thanks for the reply Josh. Here it is:

Exactly what I thought. Follow my above post, and you will be good to go man.

Cheers,

Josh

Since you posted the contents, I merged them for you. Cheers,

Josh

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Thanks. I'll give it a try and get back with results shortly. Cheers.

Not quite there yet Josh. I backed up the mimeapps.list file then edited the orig with vim to leave the following file contents:


Then I restarted the system, and so far if I click on Places in the TopPanel, none of the submenu items from HomeFolder through Downloads inclusive will subsequently lead to any display output, although everything from Computer through Recent Documents gives shown results. Any ideas? Cheers.

I noticed I had a duplicate in my list. Try only that for now until we have it troubleshooted fully. Mime types can be flaky sometimes.

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No joy yet I'm afraid. Made the changes from last post, restarted (don't know if a restart is required) and its still the same result. Did notice though, that there were references to wine.desktop, kde4-kaffeine.desktop and kde4-kmplayer.desktop. Wondering if maybe the process is hanging somehow on one of these as I don't use wine, kmplayer and my desktop is gnome. Afraid I'm more than a little out of my depth here. Many thanks.

You can remove the ones you are not using and keep the minimal. Do you still have brasero installed?

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Still not but hoping. Made change to remove everything unused as per synaptic installed progs. So present mimeapps.list file contents read:

thane@x:~/.local/share/applications$ cat mimeapps.list

Restart and still no response to Places - everything between Home Folder and Downloads. Edit: Forgot to answer one of your questions... Yes, brasero is still installed. Cheers

http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/sh...php?p=10394714

Check that out and see if that works. I don't feel like typing too much right now because I have a lot going on right now LOL

I just removed brasero and restarted. Over the past few days this has resulted in my TopMenu - Places working properly. This time it wouldn't. So I think maybe something of necessity has been removed from the mimeapps.list file. Here are the contents of both the original (backed up) file and the present file:

The vdi entry is for vbox. I started up virtualbox and everything seems to be working fine there on a quick check. I don't know about the rest of the entries. I'm ?thinking? maybe there's something, which has been removed from the original, which might make your changes work. Does anything seem possible? As a note I've just reinstalled brasero, so that we are comparing apples and oranges here. Cheers and thanks again!

Hmmm.... Got me thinking. For the inode/directory, try changing the config to just nautilus-folder-handler.desktop and see if you get any slightest change. I don't see why it is not working properly unless there is a different configuration somewhere else. On a side note, if you log in as a different user, does it work?

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