Kali Linux Failed to launch preferred application for category “TerminalEmulator” and all files miss

I had a similar problem today. Installed Kali 2020.4 64-bit and ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade as you described. Rebooted the system and was unable to open terminal or browse files (I only tried via the "Home" folder on the desktop).

I was still able to open QTerminal directly from the application menu to run commands. I was able to fix this by running the following. Hopefully this works for you.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

This returned a list of packages that "were automatically installed and are no longer required:" Remove these packages with the below command.

sudo apt autoremove
Reboot. Then run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade again. The following packages were required. Reboot again and terminal/file browsing should be working as expected.

I suspect one specific package "xfce4-helpers" is causing the issue. I'm new to Linux so not sure of the cause (hopefully someone can elaborate).

After completing the above steps, run sudo apt-get install xfce4-helpers.

After doing the above

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