Ubuntu – “The location is not a folder” error when opening files

Try removing the following files:

~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list  #You already did this
~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
~/.local/share/mime                        #This whole folder needs to be deleted or moved

Removing these folders will remove any file assosiations with Wine, if you use it.

Also, if you want the Preferred Applications tool back, just install the capplets-data package.

If that doesn't work, there might be a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications preventing that menu item from showing. To remove it, run:

grep -r "Preferred Applications" ~/.local/share/applications 2>&1 | sed 's/:.*$//g' | xargs rm -vf

The command won't do anything if it can't find a file in ~/.local/share/applications that contains the text Preferred Applications.

Hope this helps :)

Suppose you have a directory called mounts in your home directory in which you want various Samba shares to be mounted. Suppose further that you are specifically interested in mounting a share called sharename from a remote machine called hostname (this could also be an IP address), and on that remote machine your username is username. First, create the mount point:

mkdir ~/mounts/sharename

Then mount the share:

sudo mount.cifs //hostname/sharename ~/mounts/sharename -o user=username

In Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and earlier, if you don't have the mount.cifs command, you can either install the cifs-utils package, or use smbmount instead (which is, in turn, provided by the smbfs package).

sudo smbmount //hostname/sharename ~/mounts/sharename -o user=username

(smbmount is not available in Ubuntu 12.10 or higher, at least so far, but you can use mount.cifs instead. Thanks to HDave for pointing this out.)

You may be prompted for your password on the local machine, to run the command as root. Then you'll be prompted for your password on the remote machine, to log in so you can mount the share.