Open vs Edit file associations

Open vs Edit file associations

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    Sep 14, 2006#1

    I'm a little curious about what UE has done to my XP/Pro setup. I just installled V12, and from my admin account I set up the "file associations" for everything I plan to edit with UE... BUT: I was quite sure that it said in the help file that UE was *ONLY* going to mess with the _edit_ action for the various file types, but now I discover that when I double-click on a ".pl" file UE fires up, which is a *real* PITA [not the least of which is because I don't even know, quite, what the appropriate action-command used to be before UE stepped on it, so I don't know exactly how to fix the problem]. Worse, I just checked and UE didn't even set itself up as an 'edit' action: .pl *ONLY has 'open' and that's now set to UE instead of active state.

    Did UE do this to EVERY file type I set it? If so, I have a lot of undoing to do [what a ROYAL pain!]. And also if so: I've clearly done something very wrong in getting UE config'ed: Assuming I get the damage fixed, What I wanted was UE *only*ever* to be the 'edit' action for essentially all of those file types and for it to leave the 'open' action as it was.. how should I do that?

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      Sep 14, 2006#2

      Read in help of UltraEdit the pages File Associations (Startup dialog) and File Associations (Configuration). The second one is better because it explains more detailed, that UltraEdit is associated with the open method.

      As described in the second page you can undo the associations with Configuration - File Associations by deleting the associations in this dialog. UltraEdit has saved the previous association and restores it when you remove an association with this configuration dialog.

      If you want to associate UltraEdit with the edit method to files, you have to do it with Windows Explorer manually for every file type. You must also delete it manually, if you don't want it no more or you uninstall UltraEdit forever.
      Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria

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        Sep 14, 2006#3

        Yup, another great big DUH on my part. Reading the help section more carefully, it does say, clearly "to determine which application is to be used to open the file". I don't know why/how I got it in my head [other than that UE is an editor..:)] that it'd set up the _edit_ action rather than the _open_ action.

        Very nice that it saves the old associations [I'll go fix that now], but one thing that'd be nice would be to "set aside" the old associations. [for example, right now I *cannot* run a Perl program from Explorer]. Instead of removing the old open action, UE _could_ have moved it to some new action and then it'd show up on a right-click, which would allow us to eat our cake and have it too.

        Thanks!