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9 years ago
"RowanSage;14858417" wrote:"igazor;13984901" wrote:
It wouldn't make any difference to the game. The link to auto-open in a particular program is just for the sake of convenience. It just makes the files' icons look ridiculous when the link to auto-open is set wrong.
Anyway, all you have do to "fix" this on most versions of Windows is right-click on any one .package file and select Open With > Choose Default Program. Then select something else like Notepad and make sure the box "Always Use Selected Program to Open this Kind of File" is ticked.
Or you could do it the way sirguylittle demonstrates above.
But unless you have a package editing program like S3PE installed, it doesn't matter what the default program to open is because you would never be opening package files anyway. If you do have S3PE, that would be a good program to select, though.
Actually, that doesn't work. I accidentally set all my package files to notepad a while ago, and I'm no longer able to use mods or any cc in a .package file format.
I've been looking around the internet and I have found a way to remove file assocation, but I can't remember the file extension for .package files.
Here's what I found. I haven't attempted it yet, but people have said it works.
1. Do WinKey+X and click Command Prompt (Admin)
2. Click 'Continue' or enter the admin password if you aren't signed in
3. In Command Prompt, enter 'assoc .*whatever file you want to delete assocation with (e.g. .ext .bin, things like that)*
I'm sorry to be stubborn about this, but something else must be wrong. File associations on their own have no bearing on how the game reads package files.
There is no standard association for that type of file because different programs use the ".package" type of file in different ways. If you must take action to change this, install a package editing program like S3PE or NRaas Packer that is actually capable of opening package files and make the association to that program.
http://simlogical.com/s3pe.htm
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Packer
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