Nicolas I had that problem a while ago and got help here. The email has gone though. >From memory. Go to control centre - kde components - file associations. Create a new application called "octet-stream" Just add the name leave everything else blank and check 'Use settings for 'application group'. This should cure the problem. Please let me know either way so I have another mail for reference. I had the problem after several months use of suse9. Think it was due to the installation of some package or a suse update. I'm getting paranoid about suse updates. Regards all John On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:38, Nicolas Ouellette wrote: > Le 12 Janvier 2005 07:34, Benjamin Rossen a ÃcritÂ: > > 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)? > > Sorry. I' m a bit short on these details, although I haven't notice > anything unusual after deleting my own octet-stream.desktop. > > Anybody has some idea? ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.