fclifton

Today I noticed that my file open dialogs for various applications are not listing the applications files. This is happening in Word, Excel, Phatpad and maybe others. I am assuming they are all using a standard file open dialog and it is not working. If I use Resco File Explorer to open the file, Resco picks the correct application, so I think the file association is still intact.

As far as I can recall, the latest software I have installed is Mortplayer and Pocket Player.

This is on an X51v (A12) running WM5.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Frank

CerebralGenius

I don't quite understand what you mean by various applications not listing application files in the file dialog. I don't ever remember nor see why the MS office suite would display application files (ex. *.exe) in the file dialog. For one, they don't have any handles with those type of files. If what you're talking about is how Word, Excel, and Powerpoint Mobile list documents when you launch them, that I can assure you is not a bug or mishap but a program limitation, as Microsoft didn't intend for users to open documents using a file dialog (why they didn't, I have no clue...). Regarding the last thing you wrote about Resco launching applications, I'd assume that if you're having problems with other programs opening files that you may have some kind of mis-association with those particular file types. Yet again, I'm not 100% sure what issue you're talking about. Could you be a little more clear? Or maybe someone else here who understands your post can reply.

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fclifton

File open dialog may not be the most accurate term. Anyway, when you start Word Mobile on the PDA, the first thing you see (normally) is a list of Word files that can be opened. In my situation, this list is empty, even though there are Word files that exist. Same thing happens for Notes, Phatpad and some others.

The good news is that I discovered, by accident, the cause: I was in the Notes list, and I accidentally pushed on my SD card which popped it out. Ta-Da! the Notes files showed up! I put in another SD card, the files still showed up. Put in the first SD card, the files disappear from the list. Repeatable every time I switched SD cards. So, something on the first SD card was causing it. I used Resco Explorer to poke around on the first SD card, and in one directory were a bunch of bogus files listed. I couldn't delete them because they had invalid file names. I copied the rest of the files that I needed to my laptop, formatted the SD card, and put them back. Now everything is still working as it should.

I have no idea why those bogus files on the SD card caused the problem, but I don't care, it is gone now!

Frank