File Associations

[Michael A. Peters]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 18:19 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote:
> Hey mates,
> 
> A few days ago I seem to have lost all my file associations... when I
> click on a .jpg, .odp, .rar, etc file, fedora can't open it, i have to
> manually open the appropriate program and then open the file from
> within... 
> 
> What could have caused this and how can I revert it?

On a mac - I would say "rebuild your desktop" :p

create a new user account and see if it happens there.
If it works in a new user account, then I suspect something jacked up
your gconf2 database.