Saved Flight's (Program Association)

falcon409

falcon409

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First of all, I know this worked in V2.4 as I used this all the time to quick start flights and I know others have as well. Having gotten that "no I'm not crazy" moment out of the way. . .Has anyone else noticed that you can no longer associate saved flights in the "My Documents/Prepar3DV2" folder with the prepar3D "exe" file? It's now a notepad file and will not accept any other option. So you can no longer click on a saved file in that folder and have it load the sim to that flight. That sucks, to be perfectly honest.
 
DaveWG said:
Right-click the file & select "open with" then choose the P3d exe.
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I mentioned in my post that I did that and it no longer will accept that.
Has anyone else noticed that you can no longer associate saved flights in the "My Documents/Prepar3DV2" folder with the prepar3D "exe" file?
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Dumonceau said:
Sorry Falcon, just tried that, and it does work!!
Rightclick on the file, select properties, and then change the "open with" option.
Hope this helps!

Johan
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Sorry guys, it's not like I've never done this before. I understand what you're saying perfectly, but again, I have said in my post. . . .it does not work. Now, if there's something that has changed on my computer that hinders file association, that's another matter entirely and maybe I need to investigate that area, but telling me to do something I've already said doesn't work. . . .won't suddenly make it happen.
 
Are you not getting the option to pick another program, or is it that you can pick one, but it just doesn't associate?
 
falcon409 said:
Sorry guys, it's not like I've never done this before. I understand what you're saying perfectly, but again, I have said in my post. . . .it does not work. Now, if there's something that has changed on my computer that hinders file association, that's another matter entirely and maybe I need to investigate that area, but telling me to do something I've already said doesn't work. . . .won't suddenly make it happen.
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I'm afraid that there is something seriously wrong with the file associations of your windows. How long ago was the last clean install of your windows Falcon? Do you regularly clean your registry?

And last but not least, when you doubleclick the FLT file. What happens? Do you get any error messages?

Johan
 
Dumonceau said:
I'm afraid that there is something seriously wrong with the file associations of your windows. How long ago was the last clean install of your windows Falcon? Do you regularly clean your registry?
And last but not least, when you doubleclick the FLT file. What happens? Do you get any error messages?
Johan
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It was none of the above. I did a search for file associations in Win7. . .followed those instructions trying to make the change in the control panel....no joy. . .it would not accept Prepar3D.exe. So I started over and went back to the sim and noticed (as part of the migration tool) that there is also an FSX.exe. . .I tried that and it accepted that. When I went back to my saved flight folder they are now associated with P3D. So migration users beware. . .while this program is very good at what it's designed to do....it also messes with other functions, both good and bad.
 
Dumonceau said:
. . . . . How long ago was the last clean install of your windows Falcon? Do you regularly clean your registry?
And last but not least, when you doubleclick the FLT file. What happens? Do you get any error messages?
Johan
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I felt compelled to answer these questions since you asked. . .
A clean install of windows. . .in 20 years of computing with Windows as the OS, the only times I have done a clean install were related to serious virus issues that destroyed my system, 3 times that I can remember. As a rule I have no desire to periodically do a clean install of a program to doesn't have a major problem. This was an irritant, not a major problem. As far as the registry. . .I clean it when the urge hits me. . .sometimes twice a week, other times maybe every month or so. . . .and the last question. . .since the FXML (not FLT) file was associated with Notepad, when I double clicked it, it would open as a text file and therein was the problem.

Now that I know the EMT utility was the culprit I can be ready if this happens again, which it shouldn't actually.
 
falcon409 said:
It was none of the above. I did a search for file associations in Win7. . .followed those instructions trying to make the change in the control panel....no joy. . .it would not accept Prepar3D.exe. So I started over and went back to the sim and noticed (as part of the migration tool) that there is also an FSX.exe. . .I tried that and it accepted that. When I went back to my saved flight folder they are now associated with P3D. So migration users beware. . .while this program is very good at what it's designed to do....it also messes with other functions, both good and bad.
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Thanks so much Ed! I had the same problem for long and never really bothered to investigate the cause. Your solution does work! One more strange one gone!

Thanks again! :applause:
 
falcon409 said:
I felt compelled to answer these questions since you asked. . .
A clean install of windows. . .in 20 years of computing with Windows as the OS, the only times I have done a clean install were related to serious virus issues that destroyed my system, 3 times that I can remember. As a rule I have no desire to periodically do a clean install of a program to doesn't have a major problem. This was an irritant, not a major problem. As far as the registry. . .I clean it when the urge hits me. . .sometimes twice a week, other times maybe every month or so. . . .and the last question. . .since the FXML (not FLT) file was associated with Notepad, when I double clicked it, it would open as a text file and therein was the problem.

Now that I know the EMT utility was the culprit I can be ready if this happens again, which it shouldn't actually.
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Confirmation once again why I don't use the migration tool.

Oh, and editing fxml files (or flt for that matter) with notepad is fine, as long as you don't select "always use this program". So it was a file association problem, just another file type.

Glad things worked out for ya!

Johan
 
I also avoided using the tool for the same reasons. However, after it helped me install the sceneries I was so much missing from P3D for which I have dearly paid for and have no support for P3D, I changed my mind. I just use with caution.
 
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