# Jupyter Notebook Not Opening .ipynb Files After Anaconda Installation – How to Fix?

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**Created:** [March 13, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-notebook-not-opening-ipynb-files-after-anaconda-installation-how-to-fix/33744 "2025-03-13T14:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monirul\_Islam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/monirul_islam/32/17906_2.png) [@Monirul\_Islam](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Monirul_Islam)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-notebook-not-opening-ipynb-files-after-anaconda-installation-how-to-fix/33744/1 "2025-03-13T14:56:09Z")

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After recently installing Anaconda, I’m having issues with Jupyter Notebook. When I create an `.ipynb` file, it’s not clickable and won’t open. I’ve tried reinstalling Jupyter Notebook, but it hasn’t resolved the problem. How can I fix this?

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**Author:** ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-notebook-not-opening-ipynb-files-after-anaconda-installation-how-to-fix/33744/2 "2025-03-13T15:03:03Z")

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Is this a fresh installation? Specifically when you say, “After recently installing Anaconda” do you mean it has never had Anaconda/conda on it or Jupyter? Or were you uninstalling and then reinstalling things? I ask because often with the radically different infrastructure of more current Jupyter Notebook and Jupyter Server, if old things are left around they can interfere.

If you aren’t that invested in Anaconda and you just want to get past this hurdle, I will add that JupyterLab Dekstop should be the easiest way to install Jupyter these days. See [here](https://blog.jupyter.org/introducing-the-new-jupyterlab-desktop-bca1982bdb23) and make sure it read through the post how to use it as the project management model it assumes may be different than other ones with which you are familiar.

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**Author:** ![Monirul\_Islam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/monirul_islam/32/17906_2.png) [@Monirul\_Islam](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Monirul_Islam)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-notebook-not-opening-ipynb-files-after-anaconda-installation-how-to-fix/33744/3 "2025-03-13T17:39:09Z")

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Thanks for your instruction.Yes this is a fresh installation. I recently installed Anaconda on my system and i had anaconda before . I set up Windows and installed a fresh copy of Anaconda. However when I try to open an .ipynb file from Anaconda via jupyter, it doesn’t open or nothing happens, but the Python notebook (via python -m notebook) works fine.

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**Author:** ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-notebook-not-opening-ipynb-files-after-anaconda-installation-how-to-fix/33744/4 "2025-03-13T18:14:27Z")

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> [@Monirul\_Islam](#):
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> and i had anaconda before

Sorry. I should have better phrased the original question ‘clean’ or ‘pristine’, and maybe not ‘fresh’. (I meant fresh as in the machine was new and hadn’t been around a while.)  
You had Anaconda before? But never on this machine?

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> [@Monirul\_Islam](#):
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> but the Python notebook (via python -m notebook) works fine.

You shouldn’t be running it that way though. If you installed with Anaconda you should either be using the Anaconda Navigator or the Anaconda prompt to run Jupyter.  
Did you try those other ways to open up the Jupyter Notebook application? Hopefully if you do, then you’ll be able to open a notebook from Jupyter’s file browser page.

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**Author:** ![Monirul\_Islam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/monirul_islam/32/17906_2.png) [@Monirul\_Islam](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Monirul_Islam)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 9:23am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-notebook-not-opening-ipynb-files-after-anaconda-installation-how-to-fix/33744/5 "2025-03-14T09:23:51Z")

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I had Anaconda installed on my PC previously, but after setting up Windows again, I encountered issues when trying to use Anaconda. Eventually, I decided to downgrade the Anaconda version, and now it’s working fine. Thanks for your help