Hello 8Forums Community,
I'm having file association issues.
I've have tried troubleshooting this for hours without any avail. I'm coming here as a last resort....now that I think of it, maybe I should have come here first.
On to my issue:
I recently lost file association capabilities with .torrent and GDrive items (.gdoc, .gforum, .gsheet, etc). These are the two that I have at least noticed.
I'm running out of options. I have a suspicion that maybe running Advanced SystemCare 7 may have done something strange to those file extensions. Just a hunch, but I don't know how to further look into this. I cannot do a file restore as this has been going on for a while, and I don't remember which restore to use or how far back to go or if I even have a restore option that could fix this.
Your help is much appreciated.
Cheers
Atrios
I'm having file association issues.
I've have tried troubleshooting this for hours without any avail. I'm coming here as a last resort....now that I think of it, maybe I should have come here first.
On to my issue:
I recently lost file association capabilities with .torrent and GDrive items (.gdoc, .gforum, .gsheet, etc). These are the two that I have at least noticed.
- When I click on either of those files, it gives me a prompt to choose a file association. Since the correct program isn't listed, I go and click on the option to find the program manually. However after I select the correct program for each of the above files listed, nothing happens. Nothing opens, nothing changes, nada happens.
- I have also tried right clicking on each of the files above mentioned, going to properties, under the general tab I click change next to the part where it says "Opens with:". Same thing as in part #1. Nothing happens, nothing changes. It says in that slot "Pick an app" and says the same thing after I pick an app.
- Then I went to Control panel, Default Programs, Associate a file type or protocol with a program. The interesting part here is that I cannot find among the huge file extension list the above referenced file extensions (.gdocs, etc). It's like they are not baked into the system. However, when I go to regedit (registry editor) and look at this key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts" I can find all the file extensions listed above. I even deleted the .gdocs one to see what would happen (deleting the whole extension file in the reg editor under the above reg edit address) and nothing happened. I still cannot associate anything with a .gdoc file.
- Other common file extensions such as .pdf work great. I can change between the default program without an issue. If I change a default program for a .pdf file, it sticks and does not give me headaches as the above file extensions.
I'm running out of options. I have a suspicion that maybe running Advanced SystemCare 7 may have done something strange to those file extensions. Just a hunch, but I don't know how to further look into this. I cannot do a file restore as this has been going on for a while, and I don't remember which restore to use or how far back to go or if I even have a restore option that could fix this.
Your help is much appreciated.
Cheers
Atrios
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1