Strange behaviour of texture files

[Koosie van Tutte]

for quite some time i am using 'genetica viewer' for textures. this is not the full version which is rather expensive, but the free viewer which has a lot of free textures which can be edited and saved as jpegs. so far so good. there is also their 'woodworkshop', which is also free and works just as fine.
recently, when i looked into the sketchup material folders i saw that all files had the normal .skm extensions, but that the sketchup icon had been changed to the genetica viewer icon.
texturing in sketchup is not a problem, all works fine, (the chage must have taken place quite some time ago when i installed genetica viewer)but maybe someone can tell me how this is possible?
trying to open them in the genetica viewer did not work, not even after changing the extension to .gtx (the genetica extension)
i don't understand why this happens, can somebody tell me?.

[sorgesu]

It looks like this genetica viewer has hijacked your file association.
By default the skm file type is not associated at all. However, you cam change the file association to SketchUp. In XP you would right click on any skm file, look for properties at the bottom of the context menu. Near the top of the dialogue that opens is "Opens with" and then there is a change button. Click on the change button and go through the list of programs to "associate" the file with. If SketchUp doesn't appear in the list, then click on the browse button towards the bottom, navigate to Program Files>Google>Google SketchUp6>
and click on the sketchup.exe file. and save the associaton. you will see that the icons for the fils change to look like SketchUp icons

You shouldn't be able to view an skm file in the genetica viewer, because skm is a proprietary sketchup file type. The jpg files can howver and I expect that Genetica simply hijacked all generic rastor file types so the icon is changed to the Genetica one.

[Koosie van Tutte]

thanks a lot susan - will try this.

[sorgesu]

I had to look and look again at your name. How very interesting.
I thought at first you were making an Operatic reference to : Cosi Fan Tutte
Did you parents think of that too?