Alan Cooper Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Any file my computer doesn't understand gets assigned with a formz icon. Why is this? It appears to be that in my Windows file associations FormZ layout autosave files are assigned to a simple full stop (UK) period (US) . without any letters after the period. So I suppose anything without an extension gets lumbered with it. Not a problem except that the icon is so similar to the general FormZ file icon it looks like non extension files are associated with FormZ in some way. I presume it is an error where we should be seeing some letters after the period for FormZ layout autosave files. I don't know how the non extension files will display themselves when this has been fixed. Maybe without an icon, which is probably more appropriate. Is there a fix I can make to my file associations in Windows 10 to stop this confusion? Running FormZ 8.6 pro Edited March 6, 2020 by Alan Cooper Added last sentence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Don't know if this will help... but here is a thread with a similar issue, but different App.. https://superuser.com/questions/952345/wrong-icons-displayed-in-windows-10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 Thanks Chris. I am presuming that in this particular case it could be that Autodessys did not add the letters after the period for file associations for the windows installation? Screenshot attached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 and, your autosaved files are showing up without extensions? it should be ".fza" They are on my Mac. Sorry, can't cross verify on a PC for you. ¢£ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 Chris, I have not tried Layout for years. Just had a quick experiment, checked the auto save settings to make sure they were on and have found what I think is an autosave file with .fmb extension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 How strange, since actually making a use of the formz layout autosave, the icon has changed. Maybe the earlier icon was connected to a previous version, and this may be a newer icon. I'm glad anyway as doesn't look like formz icon any more so less confusion (especially when I use the highly recommendable program: free-file-sync, which skips the google docs documents in google drive when I back up my other sync-able cloud files). Example of new icons attached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¢hris £und Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Oops, by the time we got there, I messed up and forgot you had mentioned it was about layout, I’ll see what it does here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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