Filezilla stopped working on upgrade to 16.04

Question

I recently updated my Ubuntu installation on PC from 15.10 to 16.04 and now I can't run Filezilla. (All other apps are OK as far as I can tell.) When I go to Dash and click on the Filezilla icon, the icon appears in the Launcher, the hard drive appears to fetch some files for about 8 seconds, and then the icon in the Launcher disappears and nothing happens. I have removed and re-installed Filezilla (several times!), but the problem persists. Any help would be appreciated.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 04 '16 at 13:02

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I had just deleted the file ~/.config/filezilla/filezilla.xml and it worked.

I think something's wrong with the old configuration file.

edited May 04 '16 at 13:02

Willi Mentzel

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answered May 04 '16 at 12:22

edwvee

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '18 at 12:47

You can just rename the config file of FileZilla, for it please execute the command in terminal:

mv ~/.config/filezilla/filezilla.xml old-filezilla.xml

Don't worry with the loss of configured, because the FileZilla make a new configure file with the old configured and you don't lose your configures

Filezilla stopped working on upgrade to 16.04

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