Project Sol .uproject and assets not opening

The project sol .uproject and .uassets are not opening for me. I have tried multiple answers to .uproject failing to open however they all seem to fail. I still cannot get any other options apart from open when I right click on the file and have tried multiple ways to associate the files with the engine. I have even installed versions 4.23 to 4.19 to try and see if they work. The only message I got (this only happened once) was to check whether it was writable and it was. whenever I open the project I just get the standard blank project and no assets inside. What am I doing wrong? is there any other fix?