How To Open Unity Project From Project Folder?(Where File Is?)

Hi,

We see you can open a Unity project from Unity opening screen
but we don't see where to double-click on a Unity project file in the Unity project's folder?
Which file opens a Unity project and where is it in the Unity project's folder?

Thanks!

 

Unity has not one "Project file" that you can open.
You can only open a project from Inside of unity ( or via the commandiline comamndo "-projectPath <pathname>")

 

Double-clicking Scene file opens the project in unity,
but if you have multiple unity versions installed, it doesn't open the correct one for that project (seems like it just opens the version that was installed last)

 

There is no Unity Project File. There is a folder, with the Assets (and other) folders inside. Just open unity, click "open project" and click on the folder that your project is in.

 

hmm.. this actually works, adding custom context menu item for folder:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/29769228/5452781

Then can right click inside folder, have Open Project in Unity using the -projectPath command line parameter and "%V" to pass path:


*now included in this launcher alternative:
https://github.com/unitycoder/UnityLauncherPro

 

For reference, if you want the path for the icon to add it to the context menu, use the path to your unity.exe file, followed by ",0" which references the first icon embedded within the executable. Something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Unity.exe",0

 

The context menu is a great solution, but here's another that possibly slightly more useful for some people...

I just wish there was just a single top level project file I could double click in the main project folder (like every other major project based software in the universe)... So I just wrote a generic batch file for Windows that I can drop into the top level of all Unity3d projects called unity_proj.bat with the contents below:

@echo off
start "" "C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Unity.exe" -projectPath %cd%
exit

It also notably works when making multiple shortcuts to different instances of that batch file.

That said, it's not so great for being able to choose which version of Unity to launch if you have multiple or if they are installed someplace other than what I wrote above (but I leave that as an exercise for the reader). Cheers!

 

my launcher can automatically select correct version, and can run it from commandline,
https://github.com/unitycoder/UnityLauncherPro
(also can use it to automatically launch correct version from context menu)

 

I have not been able to find ANY HELP AT ALL, IT ALWAYS SAYS "Project Path does not exist" AND I'M PISSED AND ABOUT TO DELETE UNITY!!!! I HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR HOURS

 

hi,
what are you trying to do and how?

 

Did you figure it out? I cant

 

i've used this
https://gist.github.com/unitycoder/b182f1457fcf0bebcca01689cc2ef539

heres more examples,
https://forum.unity.com/threads/how...file-explorer-on-windows.373889/#post-7123883

 

Adding this comment because this comes up high on google.

This is pretty easy to do from Unity Hub. In the Projects tab, at the top right there's an "Open" button. Click the drop down arrow next to that and select "Add project from disk". Then you can select the project folder you want to open and it will be added to the list of projects in Unity Hub. From there you can select the editor version you want and open the project.