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stoon
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crashes when opening a file

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I am having problem with 0.20.2. just installed it today after a hard drive upgrade and fresh windows 10 install today, the program starts and runs, when i go to open a file the window opens but it stays blank then after 30sec FreeCad crashes, windows is fully up today as i do that first before installing any programs
I already tried to uninstall/reinstall and reboot the computer too still the same problem

any ideas with??

thanks
chrisb
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Re: crashes when opening a file

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

Did you check the Known OS specific issues?
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Re: crashes when opening a file

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Something with your system seems wrong if opening the dialog causes a crash. Check what happens if you use the Open dialog of any other program.

A workaround is to not use the native file dialog but that of Qt. Therefore go to Tools > Parameter editor and navigate to BaseApp > Preferences > Dialog. Now create the boolean key DontUseNativeDialog and set its value to true.
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