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I must have several hundred video & music files stored in various folders on my desktop based upon genre or classification. I have suddenly noticed I cannot open these files unless I first click open VLC Media Player first and then open the file from within VLC Media Player. It didn't used to be this way. I think I have accidently altered some default setting. Can someone tell me how to activate files from outside the program? This is true of playlist files also. I cannot activate them except from within VLC Media Player.

Reset preferences.

What can cause my Playlist files to all of a sudden stop working? What worked yesterday is not working today. I've made no changes to any of the filenames comprising my Playlist files. I have a group of about 24 Playlist files that were working yesterday, today about 15 of them have stopped working.