Comment 126 for bug 260492

I have just experienced these exact symptoms on my upto date version of Ubuntu 10.10.

Any folder I opened from the "places" would immediately cause the entire contents of that folder to be opened by media player.

I fixed the problem afterwards by editing .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list as someone above recommended.

However it caused further dodgy problems on my system: The "update manager" popped up and thought it was doing a "partial upgrade". Update manager also prompted me to do "sudo apt-get install -f" and "sudo dpkg --configure -a" to clear things up, which worked eventually.

I would recommended that this bug be rated more seriously. It's still present in ubuntu 10.10.

Leading up to my experience of this bug, I had been trying to open a corrupted file in both VLC and Media Player, so maybe that was the cause?

Good luck with fixing it.