X.php "is in use by another program"

[John of Stoke]

I have recently installed Macromedia Dream Weaver and found that all my
Publisher files *.php will not open - I receive the message that *. php "is
in use by another program" etc. No other program is running.

Dream weaver seems to has taken them over. I have tried re-associating them
with Publisher, but with negative result. I also have uninstalled Dream
Weaver - still no luck.

Any help would be much appreciated.

JS

 

[Mary Sauer]

..php is a Picture It! project extension. Publisher files are .pub. It is also source
code which is probably why Macromedia took over.
http://www.php.net/

 

[John of Stoke]

Mary

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply - I have called up php.net - what
course of action would you suggest I now take?

JS

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have Picture It!? Can you open the file within the Picture It! application?
Maybe the folks over at news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.pictureit can
help.
It simply doesn't seem feasible that Publisher files will be changed to .php, however
I can see why .php files would be associated with a web development program.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Home Publisher was a forerunner of Picture It!. Is this the program you are grappling
with?

 

[John Inzer]

Home Publisher was a forerunner of Picture It!.
Is this the program you are grappling with?

===================================
Hi Mary,

The OP's problem was corrected
by resetting his file associations.

The program was never identified
but I think it was Home Publishing.

 

[John of Stoke]

Mary & John

Perhaps I should give more detail -

I have Home Publisher as part of Works Suite 2000 - all on XP

..php is a valid extension to that program, and those files will not open in
Picture It.

I have jiggled with changing the file - it appeared to work because it
said - "you have customised files with .php to restore to home Publisher
press "restore".

It seemed to work - I got into some files - but it now shows the error
message "file in use by another program etc.

Any ideas?

John