install problem - file association paraview 5.11 in windows 11

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Hello I am working on my personal computer and having trouble updating to the last version of paraview.

After downloading and installing, as usual in previous version, the msi package, when I update the executable associated with the vtk files - it seems that the file association fails.

All the vtk files icon turns to blank:

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and when I click on these the following prompt is shown:

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However if I click on paraview.exe, nothing happens.

It is not a huge problem, I can still use the older version just fine or I can open the 5.11 binary and manually open the file from inside the paraview, however It is a bit of a pain day to day.

I was wondering if I am the only one with this issue with win11

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bump :sweat_smile:

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It seems that this is something else that we lost in the exe → msi migration :confused: .

Cc: @wascott @cory.quammen

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We don’t use the msi version. We download the zip ball, and I then repackage it into a zip and also a exe package. Thanks for the heads up.

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the same file association issue arise both with the installer and with the zip package

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Yeah, the .zip is never going to do file associations; it is just a directory containing ParaView.