I upgraded to v1.7.04 and when I try to open one of my files in lightburn it tells me it cannot open a LBR file when all my saved files are either LBRN or LBRN2 files. However,if I open up file explorer and click on the very same file it opens just fine.
Below is the box that opens when I try to open a file while in lightburn. I’m not sure how to attach this PNG file but will try.
Make sure you´re pointing to the same file.
Draw a square and Select Save As from the menu
check where you are saving.
Clearly not, the file you’re showing has a LBR extension. How it got that extension I have no clue, but unless it keeps happening don’t worry about it.
Copy the offending file and place it elsewhere for safe keeping. In the original folder change the extension to lbrn and attempt to open it. If it opens correctly delete the copied file and move on. If it doesn’t appear correct, change the extension to LBRN2 and try again. Resave from lightburn just to be sure.
For some reason the 8dot3 filename is being used; it’s a remnant of pre win-95 days, where the maximum filename length was 8 characters with a maximum of 3 character extension. lbrn/lbrn2 files are 4 and 5 character extensions, and would be truncated to lbr.
Why the files ended up in this state, who knows, as I doubt you are running windows 3.1! perhaps a flash drive formatted to fat16 or vfat at some point in the lifetime of the file would cause that. Can be fixed volume wide or per directory with fsutil 8dot3name (see here fsutil 8dot3name | Microsoft Learn)
That should not have happened because [1] Lightburn does not go back that far, and [2] the user OS is Win10. It had to be typing in the filename that did it.
Good catch. We will have to wait for the OP to come back and inform us whether he used a thumb drive to transfer the file or other posibility.