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Title: failed to detect file format
Post by GF on Apr 9^th, 2020 at 2:13pm

While directly double click on .fasta or.uprj file, ugene would start but pop up a eror window as failed to detect file format.
But start ugene first then drag file into it will not cause any problem.

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by Olga Golosova on Apr 9^th, 2020 at 5:24pm

What is your operating system and which UGENE package do you use? Did you install UGENE using an online installer?

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by GF on Apr 9^th, 2020 at 7:41pm

OS: Win10 1903 X64
Installed with: Recommended UGENE packages – UGENE Online Installers

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by Olga Golosova on Apr 9^th, 2020 at 7:54pm

When you double-clicked on a project file, did UGENE open immediately or you selected it in the list of applications?

Also, if possible, please check associations by file type in Windows settings (Settings > Default apps > Choose default apps by file type, find ".uprj" file type and check if application "ugeneui" is set as default).

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by GF on Apr 9^th, 2020 at 9:43pm

UGENE open immediately then pop up error window.
Ugene is default software to open .uprj files.

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by Olga Golosova on Apr 10^th, 2020 at 5:05pm

We reproduced the issue. It is connected with space characters (" ") in a path of an input file. And it seems that it is Windows 10 specific. You may try to check this - double-click on a file that doesn't have spaces in the path, and also make sure UGENE is installed in a folder without spaces in the folder path.

We'll try to fix the problem as soon as possible.

Thank you for reporting about the issue!

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by JamesHill on Oct 16^th, 2020 at 9:00pm

wrote on Apr 9^th, 2020 at 9:43pm:

UGENE open immediately then pop up error window.
Ugene is default software to open .uprj files.

Msg me i can solve this issue as i know about it.....

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by Dmitrii Sukhomlinov on Oct 19^th, 2020 at 2:03pm

The problem is still reproducible for you? What version of UGENE do you use?

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by Robert Boyd on Jan 26^th, 2021 at 6:15pm

wrote on Sep 9^th, 2337 at 7:49am:

The problem is still reproducible for you? What version of UGENE do you use?

Uploaded image for project: 'UGENE' ... Currently, a message box "Unable to detect file format" is shown on Windows, but not on Linux

Title: Re: failed to detect file format
Post by Dmitrii Sukhomlinov on Jan 28^th, 2021 at 7:47am

Hello,

Could you, please, share the file you have problems with?