I just got unreal to code, but whenever i make a project, and then try to open it back up from the main screen, it says i need to associate the files. so when i go to do that there is no .uproject file to associate with anything, and when i find it i don’t know what to associate it with. putting it with visual studio doesn’t make sense, so I’m assuming i need to associate them with unreal, but still my problem stands that on Win10 i am unable to do so. anyone having the same problem and know a fix?
when you were installing the engine, there were probably at least two popups that asked for permission and you either chose cancel or werent at the computer and eventually it stopped trying. Try uninstalling the engine and reinstalling it again (your project should be fine)
If you run Unreal from laucher, “Verify” your installation.
If you build Unreal from source you need to run UnrealVersionSelector which should be in Engine/Binaries/Win64 directory, this will register the build and if no Unreal was installed so far it will do file associations. You could try to do this with launcher version too, but moving UnrealVersionSelector from directory launcher to engine binderies (where UE4Editor is) and run it, but i never tried that myself ;p