File associations: works partially on Windows 7 and Windows 10

[erotavlasme]

Hi, I would report the following behaviour. On Windows 7 and 10 some files association does not work. The following works with windows 7 but does not work on windows 10 Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".html" "$ProgramsPath\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" The following works only on windows 7 and only for .ps1 file extension

Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".txt" "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"
Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".ps1" "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"

The following works for both windows 7 and windows 10

Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".rar" "$ProgramsPath\7-Zip\7zFM.exe"
Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".zip" "$ProgramsPath\7-Zip\7zFM.exe"
Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".7z" "$ProgramsPath\7-Zip\7zFM.exe"

[ferventcoder]

@mwrock can you have a look at this one?

[erotavlasme]

Do you need log or debug? I can reproduce them.

[ferventcoder]

Run your command with -d -v. Thanks!

[erotavlasme]

Sorry, where have I to add these options? If I add these options here Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation I cannot see any debug output in chocolatey.log.

[gep13]

@erotavlas85 When you are installing the package that you are creating, that is using Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation, add the options to the install command, similar to this:

choco install <packagename> -dv

this simply turns on debug and verbose logging, so that there will be much more output, which might help in figuring out what the issue it. The output will be at the command line.

[erotavlasme]

This is the git file link https://gist.githubusercontent.com/erotavlas85/a92ac6974212882ecf17/raw/c7b71db8ac1bccfbb10f20b11410856cb338cf9a/log.sh

[AeliusSaionji]

Maybe you are already aware of this, but in case you aren't:

I believe 10 no longer allows you to programatically set the default association (possibly only applies to a few common extensions like txt, html, http:// protocol, etc). Instead, there seems to be a subtle distinction: you can register a program as supporting an extension, and then the user must choose to open with that program. Windows 10 will ask you how you wish to open file.extension-you-just-opened if there are newly registered associations.

These batch files might be informative https://github.com/rossy/mpv-install

[erotavlasme]

Any news?

[pauby]

I created a package with the following code in chocolateyInstall.ps1:

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' # stop on all errors
$toolsDir   = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"
Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".txt" "${env:ProgramFiles}\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"
Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".ps1" "${env:ProgramFiles}\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"

Which installed fine.

When I create a .txt and .ps1 file and double-click it, it opens Notepad++ as expected.

So I can't reproduce the issue here and don't think there is anything we need to do.

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