Problem opening a database by double clicking on it

[leah]

When I try to open a database by double clicking on it in windows explorer, a message pops up saying "EViews 9 has stopped working - A problem caused the program to stop working correctly..." The problem occurs regardless of whether EViews is already running.

This is with the April 20th build this time. Thanks!

[EViews Gareth]

If you try opening it from within EViews (File->Open Database), what happens?

[leah]

That works, as does dbopen in the command line or a program. It's just opening edbs from windows explorer that causes problems.

[EViews Gareth]

All edbs, or a specific one?

[leah]

All edbs, 100% of the time. I've tried it out on a bunch of machines running 9 and the same thing happens. It looks like dragging and dropping an edb into EViews if it's already running works though.

[EViews Gareth]

If you right click the file, select Open With, then select EViews 9?

[leah]

Yup, that gives the same error.

[EViews Gareth]

32bit or 64bit EViews 9?

Also, were these databases created in EV9, or a previous version (if so, which one?).

We can't replicate... :/

[leah]

This is 64-bit EViews 9. I've tried a bunch of databases that were created between now and 2011 and none of them work. We've kept up-to-date on versions, so that includes at least 7-9?

[leah]

Also, this isn't causing any major problems for us - I just thought I'd mention it cause I noticed it.