Comment 6 for bug 47506

Out of 377 items in .recently-used,
<Mime-Type>application/octet-stream</Mime-Type> appears 6 times - with *odp
twice, with *ods twice, and with *odg twice. On the other hand, 3
presentations, 17 graphics, 5 spreadsheets and 1 text opendocument files
have the correct mime type.

I think I might have found another clue. Some presentations have caused
OpenOffice to collapse on startup - they begin to load, and then ooffice
shuts down and gives me the document recovery error message. One file in
particular was causing a lot of troubles back in March on Suse. At the time,
I seemed to correct this problem by reinstalling the sun java jre (1.5) and
the reinstalling openoffice. The problematic file was not in my
.recently-used in Dapper, so I tried to open it conventially
(double-clicking in Nautilus). OpenOffice crashed again, and the resulting
entry in .recently used shows
<Mime-Type>application/octet-stream</Mime-Type>. I'm led to believe that all
OpenOffice files open at the time of such a crash will result in the faulty
mime-type entry in .recenty-used.

>
>"<Mime-Type>application/octet-stream</Mime-Type>", that is the issue. Is
>that specific to one file or happens with any .odp?
>
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>OpenOffice files not openable in Places->Recent Documents
>https://launchpad.net/bugs/47506