hi, you never replied to 'all' and 'allfiles', or if you got problem clean up or not, or how. so i do not know where you are with file associations. anyway, i was trying to change association for pdf files and hosed all pdf association. in going back thru to see what i had wrong, i noted something in edit window. they were pointing to ~/.kde/share/applink/.hidden directory. within, i found *.desktop files and 3 where kpdf-?.desktop. nothing to lose, i deleted them and all was well again. just thought i would pass info along to see if it might help you. later. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ___________________________________________________ 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.