Code blocks .cbp file will not associate with code blocks

[Chay Hawk]

Ok so I have code blocks installed and when I open the project folder on my desktop all the files are white, and when I click the .cbp file windows just says how do you want to open this file?, I find the code blocks .exe and it will not associate with it. I can open code blocks and drag the .cbp file in it though and that works, but I want to be able to just click on the project file. This has never done this before and I have no idea whats going on. I don't want to uninstall code blocks because I have libraries installed and linked and it would be a major pain to re do them again, so what do I do? I attached a screenshot.

[stahta01]

What operating system?

If on windows, Did you try
Settings -> Environment...
General Settings
Check and Set File Associations
Post Edit 1: Button: "Manage"
Button: "Set Now"

Note: I have never done the above; but, it looks like the correct thing to do.

Tim S.

[Chay Hawk]

Yes i'm on windows 8, I just tried that and it still doesnt work, this is very strange.

[stahta01]

Yes i'm on windows 8, I just tried that and it still doesnt work, this is very strange.

You might try it once more running Code::Blocks as Administrator in case it failed because of a permission issue.

If it fails after that, I suggest restarting the computer in case a restart of Windows Explorer is needed.

Tim S.

[Chay Hawk]

I just tries both of those and nothing worked what else can i do? If i re install code blocks on top of this one, will it delete my external library link settings?

[Chay Hawk]

Does anyone know? I re installed code blocks over the existing one, and all my linking stuff stayed there, maybe there is a settings file somewhere in my documents that I can delete?

[Alpha]

Code::Blocks stores its settings within the AppData folder (hidden by default - probably <user_folder>\AppData\Roaming\CodeBlocks).  Though this should not have any effect on file associations.

[oBFusCATed]

The file associations should be stored in the registry.
Probably something has been changed in this regard in Windows 8.
This is just a guess, I'm a linux user after all, so I might be wrong.

[Chay Hawk]

Ah, well I do have a program called Advanced System Care that cleans the registry among other things, so i'm quite positive that's what happened. So how would I go about fixing it?

[Chay Hawk]

anyone know?

[stahta01]

The only other thing to try is re-installing Code::Blocks.

Tim S.

[oBFusCATed]

I doubt it will help... can any one running windows 8 report if the file associations work or not?

[Jenna]

I doubt it will help... can any one running windows 8 report if the file associations work or not?

File association works flawlessly.

@Chay Hawk:
did you click the "Manage" button on the right side of "Check & set file associations ..." and check whether the correct endings are checked.

[Chay Hawk]

Yes I did, I re started my pc too just to see if that mattered and it didnt

[Chay Hawk]

Ok so I went to "Associate a file type or protocol with a program" in control panel and I looked for the .cbp extension and it was not there, so its been deleted, but I re installed code blocks and it didnt add it to the registry, so what i'm guessing is that there is a settings file somewhere that tells the program not to add that to the registry because it was already installed, because i installed CB over a pre existing version because i have a bunch of external libraries linked that i dont want to have to re link again, so is there anything in the files that would specify something like that? so when i re install code blocks again it will make registry entries?