Okay, here is what I found out on my own. I went to the following url which explains the extension types for all the mime-types (at least a partial list). http://www.duke.edu/websrv/file-extensions.html I sifted through all the entries and added the file extentions that they included in the following manner. Open "Control Center" select "File Associations" click the "application" group of the tree and make sure the octet-stream is not included. Click the "Add..." button and change group to "application". Now select the "octet-stream" entry and add the following file extentions. *.bin *.class *.dms *.exe *.lha *.lzh I also put "octet-stream" in the Description text box and did not add any applictions to the "Application Preference Order" area (I would bet that you should not add any preferred applications as this might mess stuff up even further.). I have not tried this with multiple users yet so I am not sure if you have to do this for everybody. I have also noticed that I am not given the option to remove this mime-type (the "Remove.." button next to the "Add..." button remains disabled) now that I have included it. If somebody can tell me why or in what file that this information is stored (as I have not found any reference to it) it would be much appreciated. I hope this helps somebody later as I could find very little on this information. Thanks, Cutaway On Friday 27 February 2004 07:10 am, Don C. Weber wrote: > Okay, I'll put this out there one more time before I move onto the next > forum. Has anybody had this problem and not been able to add octet-stream > to the file associations? Everytime I had it it just disappears. I have > done this as root as well with the same result. > > Thank you, > Cutaway > > On Tuesday 24 February 2004 10:00 pm, Don C. Weber wrote: > > I recently updated to kde-3.2.0 and I started receiving this error. > > > > Could not find mime type. > > application/octet-stream > > > > I have tried the default solution which is to go into file > > associations->applications and add octet-stream but for some reason it > > never saves it. I have tried this as a normal user and as the root user. > > > > Please help: This is getting very annoying and nobody seems to have a > > solution. > > > > On a side note: My task bar seems to be slightly off. When I click on > > the K button and the menu pops up the right hand most part of the bar is > > missing. I can just barely see the arrows that are suppose to be there. > > Has anybody seen this behavior in kde-3.2? > > > > Thanks, > > Don > > ___________________________________________________ > > This message is from the kde mailing list. > > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. -- ---------------------------- Take Care, Don C. Weber, GSEC, GSNA, CISSP 624 Coombs Creek Drive Dallas, TX 75211 fo_recon@sbcglobal.net 972.319.0339 Pager 972.205.8610 Work 214.942.8112 Cell 214.330.5247 Home "Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!" -Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." -Collin Powell (when asked about U.S. empire building by the archbishop of Canterbury) ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.