The bug seems to be that Nautilus cannot open a URI beginning with
"file:///" that includes a filename at the end. Here's how to easily
reproduce the bug:
1. Install Thunar (which does not have this bug).
2. Choose or create an arbitrary file (say, from LibreOffice Writer),
let's say "/home/myuser/Documents/foo.odt"
3. Can Nautilus open this file for us, if we pass a "file:///" URI to it
as an argument? Open a Terminal. Ctrl+Alt+T.
4. Try opening the file with this command to see the error dialog appear:
nautilus file:///home/myuser/Documents/foo.odt
5. Now do it again, removing the filename off the end:
nautilus file:///home/myuser/Documents/
...and now Nautilus will open that folder! So it's proven that
Nautilus doesn't like the filename on the end of the URI.
6. Let's try step 4 again, but this time with Thunar:
thunar file:///home/myuser/Documents/foo.odt
...and now Thunar will properly open the file directly into
LibreOffice (like Nautilus should). Bad Nautilus!
7. As a workaround, set Thunar to be Unity's default File browser, with the
command:
exo-preferred-applications
...then go to the "Utilities" tab, and set the File Manager to
"Thunar," and "Close"
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