Files open with an error "the location is not a folder" after installing XFCE

When using gnome-open (i.e. double-clicking a file, telling to browser to open a download, etc.) on Ubuntu you may get this error:

The location is not a folder.

It's due to the exo-utils package which does not play nice with gnome-open Show archive.org snapshot . You can fix the problem by uninstalling it:

Copysudo apt-get remove exo-utils

Note that this may also uninstall XFCE tools like xfce4-terminal or thunar (XFCE's directory browser). If you want to keep them, try another approach Show archive.org snapshot .

The error message looks like this and reads "Der angegebene Ort ist kein Ordner." on German Ubuntus: