[UK-CONTEST] Opening files with Wintest not

[G3SJJ]

As I say Dave, I sorted it using G3VHB's advice of going into Start, My 
Computer, Tools, Folder Options, File Types. Sure enough against .TXT 
was the WinTest icon. Changed that to Notepad and it all works again as 
it should.

The 3 files that worked this time have the .LOG extension. Ron YDX had 
used an older version of N1MM and I couldn't read the file anyway so he 
sent it  again embedded in an email. I copied that and pasted it into 
Word and then saved it as a true .TXT file. That's where I was up to 
when WT gave the error message, which lines up with the above, even 
though I had not touched WT for months.

Double clicking on it now opens it up succesfully in Notepad. At least 
if WT does that to me again I will know what to do. I don't want to 
delete WT from my computer as I might need to use it occasionally.

Chris G3SJJ



Dave Sergeant wrote:
> You still haven't told us the extensions Chris. Notepad normally 
> opens by default .txt and (probably) .log files but no other file 
> types unless you tell it. If these are Cabrillo files then I assume 
> they will be all of the form g3sjj.log etc. What is the extension of 
> YDX's file, if it is gw3ydx.log then there is no reason why it should 
> want to open with a different program than the others. But if he has 
> sent you gw3ydx.wtl (or whatever WT internal or Cabrillo log 
> extensions are) it will want WT to open it.
>
> Please tell us the facts Chris, then we can tell you what you are 
> doing wrong...
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> On 15 Jan 2008 at 10:10, G3SJJ wrote:
>
>   
>> No. The same thing has happened numerous times before over the last 18
>> months since I have had WT installed. This time I had created a new
>> folder in My Documents called AFS CW 2008 to put our 4 Cabrillo logs
>> in, G3SJJ (N1MM), G3BJ (WT), G0MTN (WL) and GW3YDX (N1MM.) I opened
>> each one up in turn. Three opened successfully into Notepad and one
>> (YDX's) incurred the WT problem. I got fed up of it this time so
>> instead of just accepting it as usual and selecting Notepad manually,
>> I decided to ask for advice. Like I say it must be some feature, OK
>> bug if you insist it isn't a feature, in WT that does this on certain
>> files. I last ran WT in mid November to re-train for CQWWCW so it
>> couldn't be anything I had done recently.
>>
>> At least now I know how to rectify it, I will be able to sort any
>> future hijacking out!
>>
>> Chris G3SJJ
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter Bowyer wrote:
>>     
>>> On 15/01/2008, G3SJJ <g3sjj at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Dave, in general it was text files with various extensions. Looks
>>>> as though WT has a feature that hijacks these things, kind of
>>>> advertising I guess!
>>>>     
>>>>         
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