Broken KDE mime types Mandriva 2007

[Alphax]

Michael Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:27:22PM +1030, Ian Anderson wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> I have installed mandriva 2007 FREE as an upgrade into an existing 
>> partition structure.
>> As a result of my attempts to edit mime types, KDE is broken.  The 
>> system reports the error " Could not find mime type application/octet 
>> stream."   This behaviour extends to the guest user account also.
>> I subsequently re-ran the installation (as an install, not upgrade) with 
>> no improvement to the situation.   During the install I preserved the 
>> contents of the /home and /tmp partitions, all others were re-formatted.
>> I rather suspect therefore that the problem lies within /home but I 
>> would prefer to leave it untouched.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to, or where to look to repair the damage.
>>
>> I accept the info above is scant, any suggestions would be greatly 
>> appreciated.
>>
>
> Ian, I am not a KDE user, but usually in unix like systems your 
> settings are stored in your home directory. It is possible that mime 
> mapping is stored in ~/.kde or something like that. Try to move it
> out of the way- log out and log back in to allow kde to recreate this
> directory from scratch.
> 

Try looking in ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/ - at least, that's where custom
MIME types appear to be stored in SUSE 10...

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