{"id":5275,"date":"2020-08-14T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2020-08-31T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T12:27:02","slug":"registry-fix-for-opening-unitypackage-in-currently-active-unity-instead-of-opening-new-unity-instance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/registry-fix-for-opening-unitypackage-in-currently-active-unity-instead-of-opening-new-unity-instance\/","title":{"rendered":"Registry fix for: Opening .UnityPackage in currently Active Unity (instead of opening new Unity instance)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think after installing 5.6 32bit unity, it broke the Windows Explorer default application feature &#8211; Where clicking UnityPackage in Explorert would open in any currently active Unity instance.<br>(instead it started opening new Unity instance every time).<br>Found solution in forums (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.unity.com\/threads\/windows-8-1-unitypackage-file-extension-should-be-handled-by-which-exe.290911\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is Registry Fix (with added fix for deleting old broken .unitypackage key)<br>*NOTE: you need to set one of your Unity installtion path there (i used 2017LTS path, but can try 2018 or later too)<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/unitycoder\/74ed2abca19fa227b0027bdad58ad65f (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/unitycoder\/74ed2abca19fa227b0027bdad58ad65f\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gist.github.com\/unitycoder\/74ed2abca19fa227b0027bdad58ad65f<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References:<br>&#8211; After 2018.x this might be always broken? <a href=\"https:\/\/issuetracker.unity3d.com\/issues\/double-clicking-a-unity-package-file-in-the-system-opens-a-new-unity-instance-instead-of-importing-the-package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/issuetracker.unity3d.com\/issues\/double-clicking-a-unity-package-file-in-the-system-opens-a-new-unity-instance-instead-of-importing-the-package (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/issuetracker.unity3d.com\/issues\/double-clicking-a-unity-package-file-in-the-system-opens-a-new-unity-instance-instead-of-importing-the-package<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think after installing 5.6 32bit unity, it broke the Windows Explorer default application feature &#8211; Where clicking UnityPackage in Explorert would open in any currently active Unity instance.(instead it started opening new Unity instance every time).Found solution in forums (link) Here is Registry Fix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148],"tags":[1184,916,1185,1182,1183],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-help","tag-default-application","tag-explorer","tag-instance","tag-registry","tag-unitypackage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KTaT-1n5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}