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kokizzu

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Registered: 2013-08-27

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All files detected as octet/stream on nemo

Hi, i have a problem recently (2 days ago), all files were detected as Binary (application/octet-stream) in nemo/evince. For details, see this link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … am-in-nemo

all .pdf file cannot be opened by evince, even when using command line:

$ file bla.pdf
bla.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
$ evince bla.pdf

the result was:

Unable to open document “file:///tmp/bla.pdf”.
File type application/octet-stream type (application/octet-stream) is not supported

Another example:

$ file bla.mkv 
bla.mkv: Matroska data

but when right clicked on nemo > properties, it's shown as

What's the possible causation of this? Is there any package that I should re-install?

Info
- I'm using 64-bit ArchLinux.
- The ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list exists
- Installing gnome-defaults-list doesn't fix the problem.

Last edited by kokizzu (2014-07-07 03:11:17)

jasonwryan

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Re: All files detected as octet/stream on nemo

Please don't expect people to follow the link in order to help you: paste all of the relevant information here.

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kokizzu

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Registered: 2013-08-27

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Re: All files detected as octet/stream on nemo

okay~

x33a

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Re: All files detected as octet/stream on nemo

Did you try opening the pdf using something other than evince? What about opening other files such as the mkv or any other file, through the command line?

kokizzu

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Re: All files detected as octet/stream on nemo

opening mkv using vlc and smplayer works fine..

i have no other pdf viewer other than evince..

x33a

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Re: All files detected as octet/stream on nemo

opening mkv using vlc and smplayer works fine..

Great!

i have no other pdf viewer other than evince..

then install one...

Give epdfview a try. If even that doesn't work, give mupdf a try.

kokizzu

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Registered: 2013-08-27

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Re: All files detected as octet/stream on nemo

epdfview works fine..

x33a

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Re: All files detected as octet/stream on nemo

I guess you should open a bug report with nemo (upstream).