HELP! Cant open blender Files with Steams Blender

[ButtNakedMan]

I downloaded Blender through Steam, but when i want to open blender files through double clicking it, it wont open as it doesnt detect blender.

Any known solution to this problem?

Any help is appreciated

[*P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*]

To have .blend files associated in the file brrowser with blender (including prreviews) you have to register blender with windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAVCh0eJOZA

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There's an easier solution. Just open the steam version of Blender and at the very top-left of the window go "File->Open" and simply look for the .blend file you are looking for.

[The Renderer]

That is not an easier solution, the whole point is that you don't have to do that and can simply doubleclick on a .blend file.


That said, there might be an easier solutiong: There is a setting in preferences->system->operating system settings to "Make this Blender installation the default", that should/might register it in Windows. Never tried it but I can't imagine what else this would be for?

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Originally posted by The Renderer:

That is not an easier solution, the whole point is that you don't have to do that and can simply doubleclick on a .blend file.


That said, there might be an easier solutiong: There is a setting in preferences->system->operating system settings to "Make this Blender installation the default", that should/might register it in Windows. Never tried it but I can't imagine what else this would be for?

I think it is an easier solution, as it removes the need to find a fix that might need further explaination. I certainly agree that it would be 'quicker' to double click the file if you are working from your windows-Folders exclusively. But after several years of working in 3D.. Getting by a problem without having to do 'complicated fixes' is a very benefitial way to solve things.

But then again, this might not be a complicated matter at all, but we are all on different knowledge-levels. And since the person above me already explained a proper fix to the problem? I wanted to simply present a work-around that required no fix and was therefore an alternative for someone, who may or may not be comfortable in doing things inside of windows.

[*P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*]

How is typing cmd and then a single line of text a complicated fix. Especially if it also results in file previews in the browser.

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Originally posted by *P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*:

How is typing cmd and then a single line of text a complicated fix. Especially if it also results in file previews in the browser.

As I said, it's not. You mis-read what I was saying.

[BirBucukIskender]

Originally posted by The Renderer:

That is not an easier solution, the whole point is that you don't have to do that and can simply doubleclick on a .blend file.


That said, there might be an easier solutiong: There is a setting in preferences->system->operating system settings to "Make this Blender installation the default", that should/might register it in Windows. Never tried it but I can't imagine what else this would be for?

This method worked for me