I am not sure about doing what is suggest there either, as sometimes messing with that stuff can cause more problems later. The answer with 8 upvotes that begins “If all else fails, you can try to resort to commandline manipulations”

After sending me a few work-arounds the tech had googled (one being from 2016!) the last one was this. I chatted with a MS tech this morning and showed the tech links to the webpages discussing the problem and commented how ridiculous it was MS hasn’t addressed it. It almost seems like removing the option to search your computer for an app in the new “default settings menu” was some ‘strategic’ move by MS to drive more traffic to their App Store.

I agree though this is a Microsoft issue. I think as a newb staying within the framework/workflow of the app is good practice so I don’t screw anything up. Normally this wouldn’t be that big of deal for me (I am such a newb at blender I don’t produce anything yet worth saving) but when I run the Verge3d app, selecting the blend file triggers 2.79 to open. blend files in 2.8?Įlk I was contemplating uninstalling 2.79 and hoping that would force windows to find 2.8 but also figured/worried it won’t fix anything and probably cause more problems. Is this how everyone else (windows 10 build 1803) opens. If I start Blender 2.8 and use Open feature the file opens as expected. With this method, it does allow me the option to manually ‘search my pc for app’, where I select the location of my Blender 2.8 exe… but it still opens with Blender 2.7!? I right click the file and select “open with”. I close Blender 2.8 then find the file in windows explorer. Something else I just noticed, I created a blend file with 2.8 and saved it. The article suggests a 3rd party utility might fix it but I prefer not to install 3rd party utilities. It’s a known issue according to this article: It only gives the option of searching the “MS app store”. It appears Windows 10 (ver 1803) removed the option of manually locating the application to set the default association with the file type. Thanks Yuri but it appears Ozbend might be right that we (windows 10 users) might have to wait for version of 2.8 with an installer.

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