I broke Nautilus; how to fix it?

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Dave_Hunt

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Hi,

In an installation of Trisquel 7, I broke the file manager such that,
when I select a folder, either by highlighting its icon, or selecting
it from the 'places' menu, Totem opens, instead of the folder. What's
more, if I use my keyboard shortcut to my home folder, totem opens,
showing nothing. To get my home folder open, I have to start nautilus
from the 'run' dialogue.

I suppose I can fix this by deleting all the folders with '.' as the
first character in their names, and reboot? Is there something more
selective I can do?

Thanks,

Dave Hunt

Now on twister as @davehunt but not sure how to use it; lol.

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tomlukeywood
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reinstall nautilus or install a different file manager?

ADFENO
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Hm...

Perhaps we could try right-clicking on a folder, clicking on "Open with
other application...", and then selecting Nautilus?

This will probably just work for the current user.

Respectfully, Adonay.
Have a nice day.

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Then again I'm fairly sure the problem is only with the current user as well :)

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Thanks, all, a
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure nautilus"
seems to have fixed it. The trouble was only with the current, and
only, user.
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