Thanks Nicolas I worked. Can I be sure that I haven't destroyed some kind of functionality; the ability to run a bin file from an e-mail attachment, for example (although from the point of security, that might not be a bad thing)? Benjamin On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:54, Nicolas Ouellette wrote: > Le 12 Janvier 2005 06:36, Benjamin Rossen a ÃcritÂ: > > Everytime my X-windows initiates and every time I start Konquorer I get an > > error message, as follows: > > > > "Could not find MIME type application/octet-stream" > > > > What does this mean? I thought that an octet-stream was the way a binary > > file appeared to the OS as it initaties execution. Is that a MIME type? > > > > Please advise me. > > Had the same problem recently. Just delete the file (or files, if you have > more than one) ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/octet-stream.desktop. It > should do the trick. > > Cheers, > -- > Nicolas Ouellette > Ãtudiant au M.A., philosophie > Registered linux user #368073 > GPG: 0xDO28A831 > ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.