Going back and forth from ver. 6 to 7
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At the moment I have SU6 and SU7 loaded. I've been working in 7 for the most part but I save down to 6 before doing a Maxwell render. I can't seem to figure out how to tell Windows to automatically open up in SU7 unless told otherwise.
Even if I right click the SKP file and browse to the SU7 exe file it still tries to open it up in 6. I'm guessing it has to do w/ the fact that the exe's have the same name (incidently I wish the icons were different between 6&7). Basically I have to open up SU7 and then tell SU which file to open. Sort of annoying.
Anyone know of a fix to this?
Thanks,
-Brodie
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Same way you change the default program for anyfile type:
- Open Windows Explorer (a shortcut is the Windows key + E)
- Go to "Tools -> Folder options"
- Click the "File Types" tab
- Scroll down to the "SKP" type
- Click the "Change" button
- Click the "Browse" button
- Browse to the "Sketchup.exe" in "C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7"
- Click the "Open" button
- Click the "Ok" button
- Click the "Close" button
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That seems to have the same issue as the solution I was trying. Even though I pick the SU7 exe file it still opens files w/ SU6.
-Brodie
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sigh..... Windows deciding it thinks it knows what you want to do, not what you TELL it to do..... I can't help, it should do what it's told... maybe smack it and send it to it's room to think about what it is doing... then when it's ready to appologise come out.
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done and done. We'll see how it likes being left alone all weekend. Maybe I'll even unplug it from the internet so it can't go browsing on newegg.
-Brodie
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Yeah ...SU seems to remember the last version you opened and will always try to do that.
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Try renaming (at least temporarily) the sketchup executable,
then set it as a default. I tried and it worked. Hope this helps.
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