RE .rev file association issues

[Edwin Gore]

Nope - uninstalling and re-installing doesn't reassociate the files either. Looks like it's time for a bug report...

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: "Edwin Gore" <edgore at shinra.com>
>To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>Sent: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:55:51
>
>The ling is - I don't have WinRAR on this machine,
>and it still won't do it. Windows pays no attention
>at all to who "officially" owns a file extension
>(unlike, for example, Apple), so I cannot think of
>a single reason this should happen, unless there is
>something corrupt about the registery entries for
>Revolution tht is making it impossible to
>associate.
>
>I'll have to try uninstalling and re-installing and
>see what happens (my .rev files haven't been
>associated with Revolution since I installed 2.01
>then uninstalled 2.0 and the uninstall stripped out
>the associations).
>
>>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>>From: "Gary Rathbone"
>>To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>Sent: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:42:06
>>
>>> When you go into properties and click "Change"
>>the dialog that shows up
>>> with the list of Apps should have an "Other..."
>>button. Click on this,
>>> navigate to the location you installed
>>Revolution, and select
>>> Revolution.exe as the appliaction to open .rev
>>files.
>>
>>Done this, and selecting revolution doesn't change
>
>>the association.
>>
>>> As far as figuring out what extensions are in
>use
>>by who, I've found
>>> http://filext.com/ to be a valuable resource.
>For
>>my windows work I have
>>> usually settled on something that's descriptive,
>
>>and not in use by
>>> anything too common.
>>
>>This is also suggested by XP in the properties
>>dialog box, and leads me to
>>believe that .rev is 'owned' more by WinRAR, than
>>runrev.
>>
>>Many Thanks
>>
>>Gary Rathbone
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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