VLC opens instead of the trash icon

When I right click the trash can and select Open Trash, then VLC opens?

How can I fix that?

Put a trash icon on your desktop. Then right click and click on 'open with other application'.
Make sure 'Remember this application for 'application/x-caja-link type files' is checked.
Then scroll down to caja and click open. Now caja will open trash.

I have had this happen twice, once with Audacious when I clicked on a song it opened caja. The other time with engrampa it opened a drawing program not a compressed file. That is how I fixed it both times.

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Thanks jymm for your help.

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Glad to help. I never figured out what crossed the link type files up. I don't think I did it accidentally, but it could easily happen.

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