Can’t Import or Detect Old Workflows After Clean Install of KNIME 5.5

Hi everyone,

I’ve recently done a clean reinstall of KNIME Analytics Platform 5.5 (Windows, 64-bit, installer) and ran into a frustrating issue that I haven’t been able to resolve even after many tries.

when I launch KNIME, the workflow it asks for the file where as the file name workflow.knime is already present in the folder C:\Users\me\knime-workspace\knimeworkingjune2025.

In addition i have older work of many months in a work flow, i am unable to open that either as the new version does not see the work flow file in the folder.

Please help