Windows cannot find file when clicking on file?

its a fresh install of vista only. happened again after i downloaded all
the recommended updates.

i was getting it before re-installing too as there were some file
association problems that were driving me nuts (its my work pc)


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ok using Acronis True Image Home 2009, I went back to my 1st image
post-install. and it still had this "*[open("%1")]*" but from what i
can see its just on my cakewalk files "*.cwp"...i have some other audio
programs on the same pc and they have no problem at all. must be just a
cakewalk error rather than a vista thing. unless there is a way to fix
it in vista?

is there a way to ADD a program to "default programs"?


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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:15:32 -0600, BleepingCrazy
<guest.TakeThisOut@unknown-email.com> wrote:

>
>ok using Acronis True Image Home 2009, I went back to my 1st image
>post-install. and it still had this "*[open("%1")]*" but from what i
>can see its just on my cakewalk files "*.cwp"...i have some other audio
>programs on the same pc and they have no problem at all. must be just a
>cakewalk error rather than a vista thing. unless there is a way to fix
>it in vista?
>
>is there a way to ADD a program to "default programs"?

You merely right-click the file you are having a problem with, then
choose "open with".

Find the program by browsing, make sure the box it ticked that says
"always use this..." or something to that effect.

yep, always do that with any lost program associations. this one didn't
do it, no matter how many times i tried. (running as admin). its a
cakewalk thing as everything else is fine. I just keep getting a popup
"windows cannot find..." and then the file opens in the propper program
(sonar) anyways. while the popup stays onscreen. crazy!


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Although this may not be current date wise. I have had a similar
problem, when I click on an excel doc. in my documents foler I would
keep getting an error message -- Windows cannot find
"Filename/Path" make sure you typed the name correctly and try again.
:rolleyes: This was sligthly annoying as I could access the file by
opening excel first and then opening the doc. After searching and
reading through many forums for a fix I finally found a resolve for
myself...I simply inserted the Office 2003 install disc and got it to
repair instead of install. Problem solved within a few minutes:D.
I have a feeling that when I used the trial version of Office 2007
bundled on my PC this had some kind of affect in the registry, which in
turn affected my Office 2003 which did not fix when i finished with the
trial version:cry:.


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mlsoup;467535 Wrote:
> I get the error message when double clicing on misc documents within my
> folders that says "windows cannot find the specified file, please make
> sure
> that you have typed the name correctly and please try again." I can
> open up
> any document from within the application itself by going to file/open
> finding
> the file and opening it that way.
>
> It is extremely random though. It only happens on some of the files.
> It
> happens on older version files (office 2003) and newer version files
> created
> (2007). I can right mouse click the file and specify open with and
> open the
> file with the program that it needs to run it but this is random as
> well.
>
> I have reinstalled Vista (brand new) pc for the second time trying to
> fix
> this problem and it will not go away. It is driving me crazy!
>
> I have looked all over the web and these dicussions and nobody has ever
> a
> succesful fix for this problem. I am not alone......
>
> I have also unstalled and reinstalled Office 2007 three times. Also
> performed repair function. Activation codes all gone now..... I have
> tried
> everything that I have read in previous threads to no avail.
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> Thank you,
> Prabhathps


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I know this thread is old and I've visited it before, but now I'm
motivated to solve this problem.

I've changed virus protection from AVG Free 8.0 to McAfee 8.5.0i and
I've used the install disc to repair my 2007 install. And I've tried a
few of the KB articles posted, but the problem persists.

My problem is the one where clicking on a file from it's location in
windows explorer opens the office program but doesn't open the file and
I get the "Cannot find" message. Opening the file from the program
works fine.

has there been any more progress on this?


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Viper71;4415451 Wrote:
> ...To exclude this scenario, you could try to copy one of your doc-files
> to the winword.exe directory, and open it from there (from explorer)...
It was a good idea, Viper. I copied an office file into the \office12
folder and I got the same error message. The message says that it can't
find the file at the location, and it does find the winword.exe file.
Word loads first and then says it can't find the file. Thanks anyway.


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Viper71;4419385 Wrote:
> ....Try a doc-file with no spaces in the pathname...

That actually worked! Do you know where I can find this %1 error? I
haven't corrected the error; I just confirmed that the spaces are an
issue.


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Another possibility comes to mind....
Try a doc-file with no spaces in the pathname, not just the filename
but the complete path should be space-less. If that works, then it must
a registry thing.
If you double-click a file, windows looks at the extension to determine
to which app this file belongs, looks up the corresponding application
and start it with the file in question as a parameter.
So double-clicking a file, is the same as running something like:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" "C:\Users\John
Doe\My Letter.doc".
This is because in the registry, it says something like: app.exe "%1",
where %1 will be substituted with the filename as the first parameter.
If you would remove the quotes, you would get this:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" C:\Users\John
Doe\My Letter.doc
The first parameter would be "C:\Users\John", the second would be
"\Doe\My" and the third would be "Letter.doc". None of these exist as a
loadable file, so it's possible that the parameter-passing of your
filename is done without the surrounding quotes.

Sadly, I cannot reproduce the error on my pc (all works well here, and
I'm not gonna screw up my system for this, sorry), but it's possible
that your registry got screwed up in this area, the "open" command
should have a "%1" instead of a %1 (i.e. surrounding with quotes).
The most obvious way to check this, is use a file without spaces in the
path, like "C:\Docs\Letter.doc".


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In theory, it should be somewhere in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and located in a
subtree like shell\open\command.
For instance, if you look in:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wordpad.Document.1\shell\open\command
you would see:
"%ProgramFiles%\Windows NT\Accessories\WORDPAD.EXE" "%1"

Except that all the Office-apps are very well hidden and interlaced
real deep within the Windows OS (too well IMHO). This is not strange, if
you consider that Office is developed by the same company as the Windows
operating system (whose name will remain unmentioned here...)

(At least, I couldn't find any registry-entry with WINWORD.EXE "%1" in
it.)
They appearantly don't want you to mess with their settings through any
backdoor, so my advice is first try some kind of "repair" from the
Office-setup, or do a re-install.

The only key I could find, that remotely matched the search, is:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Oice.Word.Document\shell\open\command
which reads:
C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\Oice.exe "%1"

I even tried removing the quotes (messing it up temporarily), but even
then it all kept working fine. Go figure....


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Viper71;4419522 Wrote:
> ...But do I understand correctly that you solved the .doc issue with
> this symantec patch? (that is, not being able to open .doc files from
> explorer with spaces in the path?)

I've been living with this problem for at least 6 months and now I'm
starting to doubt that it was ever a problem with Word. I'm almost
certain it was. I am able to open any Word file in any location. Other
files (*.pdf, *.txt, *.html, etc) never had a problem. Still no love
for excel, I assumed the problem was with the Office install.

I did do a repair of Office a couple weeks ago, which took about 30
minutes. It didn't help. Thanks for your help. Is it worth doing a
complete uninstall and reinstall? I don't know how helpful that would
be since some file would remain in place (like my Outlook *.pst files)
and I assume some registry entries.


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hifismith;4419386 Wrote:
> That actually worked! Do you know where I can find this %1 error? I
> haven't corrected the error; I just confirmed that the spaces are an
> issue.
>
> Edit: It worked for Word files, not Excel files. Unfortunately (for
> me), I use excel more than word. I did install this *.inf file from
> Symmantec to correct the %1 issue:
> http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-050614-0532-99
>
> If there's any reason that *.xlsx would behave differently than *.docx
> files please let me know. Thanks, Eric

I looked at the symantec-inf file, it just resets entries for
exe,com,bat,pif,and scr-files. These are alle executables (sort of) and
this reset is usefull if your registry is so messed up that you can't
even run apps or batchfiles anymore.
(scr is really an .exe(cutable), but renamed to .scr to be recognised
by Windows as a screen-saver program)

The difference between doc (docx) and xls (xlsx) is that it triggers
another application to open it, that's all. The concept of linking is
the same.

But do I understand correctly that you solved the .doc issue with this
symantec patch? (that is, not being able to open .doc files from
explorer with spaces in the path?)


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