PhobosK: I tried your fix, but it didn't work.  Here's what I did.

1) Added your PPA: https://launchpad.net/~phobosk/+archive/phobosk-ppa
2) apt-get update; apt-get install exo-utils   # ...and I could see exo-utils 
downloading from your PPA)
3) ran "exo-preferred-applications".  Changed "File Manager" from "Thunar" back 
to "Nautilus".   Pressed "Close" button.
4) Tried to launch a file from the Dash.  Same error message as before!  "The 
location is not a folder"

PhobosK: does your fix only "save" users who haven't yet gotten into the
situation I'm in (where "exo-preferred-applications" has it's File
Manager changed from "No application selected" to "Nautilus")?  I'm not
sure what your fix does, as experienced by the end user (in my steps
that reproduced the bug).  Does your fix prevent users from being asked
to choose the default file manager in the first place (when they're not
in XFCE, as was my case)?

Is there any fix to get people like me out of the situation we're
currently in, perhaps somehow putting "No application selected" back
into place in "exo-preferred-applications", or some other config file?

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