activprimary messing up activprofessional

[gdent]

Has anyone had a problem where activprimary seems to override activprofessional? When the school district tech department imaged my laptop, they put activprimary on it. Since I took the class and did a flipchart in activprofessional, I took it back to them and they put on activprofessional. However, when I transfer new flipcharts from my home computer (where I only have activprofessional) to my laptop, it tries to open them in activprimary! Is there any way to translate a flipchart from activprimary to activprofessional? Gail:eek:

[Lara]

Can you change which program is assigned to open that file type? I normally play around with right clicking on the file icon. Not sure if that will help though...

[cappy]

As I understand it, your laptop tries to open with the application most recently installed. Doesn't sound like it's trying very hard for you though. To fix this on a mac, I would right click on any flipchart icon, go to "get info", and then set the "Open with" default to AS3. I think that even your ActivPrimary flps will open in AS3 then.

[markrobinson]

There is also a setting/option introduced in V3 to "restore file associations"

[KGillespie]

There is also a setting/option introduced in V3 to "restore file associations"

To do this go to Activstudio>Menu>Studio Settings>General and click the button on the bottom right hand side.

[kpbooth]

I usually go to Windows Explorer-tools-folder options-file types. Then I navigate to .flp . Click on Opens with and navigate to the .exe file for AS3X(whatever version you are using). My file is as3.5PE.exe.

I hope this helps.

[sdreyer]

I navigate to any flipchart file on a PC. Then I right click > Open with > Browse> C: Program files>Activ software> Select ActivStudio or ActivPrimary(your choice) > click on the .exe file for the program> and make sure I check: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.

[Peter Lambert]

[clap]
There! Lots of solutions, just pick one!

[Westlake]

I usually go to Windows Explorer-tools-folder options-file types. Then I navigate to .flp . Click on Opens with and navigate to the .exe file for AS3X(whatever version you are using). My file is as3.5PE.exe.
Interesting! When I follow this pathway I see TWO AS .exe files
AS3.5PE.exe and AS3.5PEd.exe
QUESTION does it matter which one of these is selected?
Thanx
Hilary

[Peter Lambert]

Yes it does!:eek:
Don't pick the "D" version it is there in case technical support is required and is there to debug.

[Westlake]

Thanks for the warning Pete.
The other methods are MUCH easier anyway.
Hilary