[SOLVED] I lost all file-program associations!

it's all gone, for all users, in fact, some were preserved (have only seen it in the folder) but stay read only (directories are associated with thunar and I can do nothing about it). maybe it has to do with uninstalling perl-file-mimeinfo, although I installed it for like 2 hours and then uninstalled it, or could be some problem with having a rather outdated nautilus (I have a custom-built nautilus with tracker support that I haven't bethered to update), although I do not think it's that because the same happens from thunar :\
I'll keep trying to get them back, if you have any idea please enlight me, now I'm off to update nautilus.
EDIT: Looks like shared-mime-info got corrupted somehow... I reinstalled it and now everything is back.
Last edited by Phrodo_00 (2007-08-10 02:20:24)

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