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Title: Losing file association settings in Vista
Post by: RawbCahn on April 06, 2007, 03:13:09 am

Hi,

I running MC 12.0.198 in Vista Home Premium and I'm constantly losing my associations. I literally lose them the second I close the settings dialog box. If I go back to it two seconds after setting them and pressing OK they're back to the defaults. I might as well be pressing cancel everytime (which I'm not btw). I had this problem last week with an install of Home Basic but it just fixed itself and I figured I was imagining it or something. I had to reformat yesterday due to some driver problems while upgrading Windows and am now working on a day old install of Vista.

Does anyone have any fixes for this?

Thanks a lot.

Title: Re: Losing file association settings in Vista
Post by: JimH on April 06, 2007, 07:45:23 am

Please try the latest build from the top of this board.  We've been fixing some Vista problems, but I don't remember hearing of that one.  It's worth trying the update though.

My first thought was that maybe it's related to user accounts.

You're not running as a client on Library Server are you? 

Title: Re: Losing file association settings in Vista
Post by: RawbCahn on April 06, 2007, 10:46:15 am

I'm not. I downloaded the update and things seem OK thus far. I haven't rebooted because I'm in the middle of something but at least the associations are surviving a restart of the app itself.

Thanks for the reply.

Title: Re: Losing file association settings in Vista
Post by: DarkPenguin on April 06, 2007, 02:29:28 pm

UAC puts the kibosh on File associations.  So you need to do them through the os.  (Open with ...  always use this program.)

Title: Re: Losing file association settings in Vista
Post by: Matt on April 06, 2007, 10:06:49 pm

You could also run MC as administrator by right-clicking the shortcut.  Then you should be able to set associations. (otherwise Vista will pretend it's working to MC, but not actually save the associations)