Help! My QB64 .bas files in QB64 folder has changed

[Donald Foster]

To all,

I don't think we have a help section.

So, you'll get a laugh out of this. Instead of opening up QB64.exe and loading my .bas file from that method, I double clicked on my .bas file inside my qb64 folder and all my .bas files changed to Adobe Acrobat Document. I can still load them in QB64.exe program ok, but I would like to change them back to .bas, so I can properly post them. Like here.

Thank you very much and I'm using Windows 7

Donald

[SMcNeill]

Right click on one of the files.
Select "Open with..." from the menu.
Choose QB64.exe as the file to associate with the file.
Select "Always use this program to open these files..."
Click "OK" (or Done, or whatever it is)

You've now changed your default file association.  (And, you can use this method for ANY file extension on your drive, so you can set QB64 to open *.BI and *.BM files by default as well.)

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If it actually changed the extension, and not just the association (if it was somehow changed oddly enough), then you'd need to write a quick program to change the extension back.  Something similar to the following would work:

SHELL "DIR *.AAD>temp.txt" 'whatever the Adobe extension actually is.
Open "temp.txt" for input as #1
DO
   LINE INPUT text$
   Parse for filename/extension...
   Strip off the extension
   RENAME filename$ to filename$ + ".BAS"
LOOP UNTIL EOF(1)

[Pete]

If QB64 is not in that right click menu, see : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/18539/windows-7-change-default-programs

Pete