How does on reset the format for job reports?

[danswartz]

I inadvertently clicked on wordpad, and the report format is now garbage. I've been looking high and low and can't find anywhere that describes how to reset it...

[soncscy]

I think you want this Dan...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 0a32e1894d

Not really a Veeam issue

[danswartz]

Yeah, I know about that. What I don't know is what the default for the veeam job report should be

[soncscy]

HTML

[danswartz]

I think I'm not being clear. Okay, html is the extension, but what is the application. Veeam B&R? I understand you can set an app so a particular extension will cause that app to handle it, but this is the opposite, no? e.g. I click on the job report link and it spawns a wordpad window with '.txt'? Sorry, not a windows jock here...

[soncscy]

Sure, let's make sure we're talking about the same thing.

I am imaging what you get when you right-click a job and select "report", as noted here: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

Is this what you're referring to?

If so, it's just a normal HTML file with data; pick your favorite browser and open it from the above link.

If you are thinking of something else, can you show how you get it?

[danswartz]

No that's precisely it. The entire problem: I right click on a job, and a context menu pops up. If I click on "Report", it launches Wordpad. IIRC I was given an option to change the default and somehow messed up and selected wordpad. What I'm trying to do: reset B&R so that clicking on "Report" does what it did before I messed up. Is that clearer? I am not being given the option of choosing a browser or anything else. The moment I click on "Report", I get the wordpad document.

[soncscy]

Aha, try it with the link I posted -- Windows does a lot of goofiness with this, so first let me say I sympathize with your annoyance on this; somehow this can be a pain in the ass on Windows for no good reason.

http://woshub.com/managing-default-file ... indows-10/

Work through this -- Veeam just prompts to open the HTML file I bet and likely somewhere there's a wrong association on your OS; you might need to get into the registry. I had to battle with this on a template we used to get notepad++ to open a specific text file format by default, as it wouldn't work through the UI.

[danswartz]

Bless you, that did the trick. '.html' got pointed at wordpad. Amusingly, '.htm' was still pointing at Internet Exploder.