More mimetype woes: "application/msword) do not match its extension (ppt)" [#1173054]

Have reviewed the extensive threads on this topic, but do not see the workaround for our current problem.

pptx and ppt files both throw this error: both file types are allowed by the cck field configuration

This has surfaced on an existing install after updating the latest Drupal (6.22)...nothing else changed.

ideas or patches?

Comments

Comment #1

quicksketch

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CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented 30 May 2011 at 17:56

Project:	FileField	» MimeDetect
Version:	6.x-3.x-dev	» 6.x-1.3

Comment #2

boabjohn CreditAttribution: boabjohn commented 31 May 2011 at 01:54

Thanks for the shift to the proper spot @quicksketch: and I see there are possibly related issues already here. Has a consolidated issue been identified so we can get to one thread of solutions?

Comment #3

quicksketch

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CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented 1 June 2011 at 06:12

Almost all MIME Detect issues are caused by MIME Detect shipping with a not-very-good "magic file" that helps identify how the contents of files should look. I believe there's a hidden variable that you can set in settings.php to make MIME Detect use a better (more recent) magic file, or you can switch to using the "file" command instead of the "Fileinfo" extension and the magic file at admin/settings/mimedetect. I haven't tried this out in a while though, I'm not 100% on any of these statements.