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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How did you get the "%1" in there? Mine doesn't have that. It just shows...
the calibre e-book editor
Here's what to try. Select the ePub, right click, open with, choose another app, more apps, look for another app on this pc
Now navigate to where the editor lives and select it and go. It might then add the editor to the list for the next time.
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Originally Posted by Phssthpok
On my Windows 10 system, I have associated EPUB files with the Calibre viewer. However, sometimes I want to use the editor to look inside an EPUB, so I right-click on the file and go to the "open with" menu, and thence to "choose another app" and "more apps" and. I find "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\ebook-edit.exe" "%1", select it and click OK, and it just takes me back to the "choose another app" menu. If I scroll to the bottom, choose "Look for another app on the PC" and locate ebook-edit-exe, it opens the file in the editor as expected.
I know this is a Windows question rather than a Calibre one, but still: can anyone advise me on what to do so that I can easily open EPUBs in the editor if I want to?
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I'm using Windows 10 Pro, 64bit version 1703
Like Jon, I never see any paths as quoted strings, what you have looks like it comes from a registry value a'la - "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\????\shell\open\command"
I see a standard Windows select file dialogue, the default starting location is always C:\Program Files, from there I navigate to wherever and select an .exe - e.g:
That said, Windows (W10 even more so) and file associations are 'problematic'. I recently read, it's because MS try to maintain backwards compatibility with OLE/DDE and all that.
All I can suggest is a light weight registry clean (Piroform CCleaner is my choice), and sfc /scannow, failing that reinstall Windows.
BR