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Rémi Bertin

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Apr 11, 2017, 6:13:43 AM4/11/17

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Hello developpers,

I'm using WPS Office for Linux 10.1.0.5672 and I've found a weird bug : when I save .docx files, the mime type is incorrect, set to "application/zip" instead of the normal value "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document". Can this issue be fixed ?

By the way this software is great, a very promising alternative to MS Office :)

Thanks.

Alex Istrate

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Jul 7, 2019, 1:22:12 PM7/7/19

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Hi! I had a similar problem, and it seems I am not the only one. Yet, this is still a problem in July 2019. I managed to fix it by removing the wps-* files in /usr/share/mime/packages/ and them setting file associations manually. The following post may help you: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/xlsx-and-docx-files-are-opened-as-zip-file/25814/2

It is tailored for Manjaro users, but the same is true for Ubuntu and Mint (at least).