File associations

[nubbin77 0]

Up until tonight I had my .pbo files associated with Pbox. That way anytime I double clicked on one of them Pbox would load.

Well tonight I reorganized a little and changed the folder name of where I had Pbox. Fine. Well my association is gone. Ok then, I'll just reassociate right? Well now when I right click on a .pbo file, then hit "open with" I get the list of programs I can associate with (pbox is not one of them). So then I hit browse and go to the new location of the Pbox.exe file click on it and...nothing. Brings me back to the list of programs. Then I single click on the file and hit the "open" box - same thing? WTF?

I can associate it with any other program (like wordpad, or adobe, etc) just not Pbox or for that matter Unpbo. I don't understand! It was working for the last few months.. I rename a folder and now I can't associate to it anymore? OR TO UNPBO? Driving me insane.

PBox works normally if I just double click on it - the program is still good. Just ina different folder.

I know this isn't a "Flashpoint" troubleshooting issue, but you guys are as good as it comes to technical stuff. Any advice?

[gandalf the white 0]

DLL got fucked up?

solution: reinstall ( /repair option if you can)

[Placebo 31]

Easy to fix, I just renamed my pbox folder to pbex to test your problem, you're right it loses the association and you can't get it back the normal way, so do this (assuming you're using XP, will be slightly different if you're not).....

Double click my computer

click tools/folder options/file types

scroll down to pbo and select it

click advanced

click edit

correct the location of pbox.exe

click ok/ok/close

Should be fixed now

[shinRaiden 0]

This is because there is no installer for PBOx, it does not retain awareness of something it didn't have in the first place. In this case the file linking as described by Placebo is statically handled by Windows, instead of Dynamically by the app.