Why is Revit too stupid to open a file in the correct year?

[tspragueYLKBT]

You click on a file, revit opens a random year and tries to open the file. No dice. Revit is a computer program. What kind of moron designed the program to operate this way? Open the file in the Revit year it was saved in.

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[HVAC-Novice]

Sounds like you have multiple Revit versions installed. The "normal" way is to open a project file is to open Revit (in the version you want) and then browse to the file location. 

It isn't good practice to just to open Revit by clicking on a file. Especially not when you work-share etc. 

[Simon_Weel]

I guess there's an idea posted for this question?

There's a Shell Extension that shows the Revit version in Windows Explorer. Work ok, but there's a caveat - it slows down Explorer considerably as it has to figure out the version of every Revit file in the currently open folder.

[hmunsell]

I believe its Windows that actually controls that isn't it?  If you have multiple version installed, Windows will use the last version that was used to open that file extension (.RVT).  If you were working on a Revit 2020 file, closed Revit and then double clicked on another RVT file it will try to use 2020 to open it since that was the last one associated with the RVT extension.