air file now has different icon

aeromed202

aeromed202

SOH-CM-2014
This is a trivial matter bu without knowing why, all the air file icons are now looking like the aircraft cfg, openable with note pad. They used to be a dark brown icon, easily identifiable but now can be confused with the rest. I can still open them with an air file editor so no issue there but I'd like to get them back to something unique. Anyone know wha' hoppen?
 
Only thing I can think of is that you may have inadvertently opened the airfile with something like notepad, thinking it was something else. Not saying that you DID... but that would definitely cause what you are seeing now. Not real sure how to get the original icon back, but if your flight sim still works peachy... I wouldn't worry.

BB686:USA-flag:
 
Depending on your OS, you can simply right click on the air file, select Properties, on the General Tab, Opens With "Select Program", and select the editor you use. The Icon will revert back.
 
In my case, I installed a program that used files with the same extension (.air), and that program "took over" the file association without asking. Something like this may have happened. Milton's suggestion should fix it. In the case of Win7, you right-click, select "Open-with", then "Choose default program..."
 
Thanks. Like I said it's trivial but got my curiosity as to why it changed, I don't recall altering anything.
 
As PRB said above, you may have accepted a download from Adobe.AIR, if you do then it overtakes your aircraft .air files. I refuse now to d/l the Adobe AIR updates etc.
HTH
Keith
 
Dev One said:
As PRB said above, you may have accepted a download from Adobe.AIR, if you do then it overtakes your aircraft .air files. I refuse now to d/l the Adobe AIR updates etc.
HTH
Keith
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That's the answer - Adobe Air has hijacked your AIR file icon. The same thing happened to me on my previous confuter. As you've noticed, your AIR files still open in AirEd, but Adobe Air has registered its own icon to show on any file with the .air suffix. I don't know why the confuter knows which files to open in Adobe Air and which ones to open in AirEd, yet doesn't know to show different icons for the two kinds of files. Anyway, it's not a problem, just an annoyance. But how very annoying!

I don't know what Adobe Air does, but whatever that is, it apparently isn't necessary, or even important. I've had my present confuter for more than a year and a half now, and it doesn't have Adobe Air on it, and that doesn't seem to have affected anything.
 
Funny, I had just reviewed my programs and decided Adobe Air was pointless and deleted it. That was about when the icon changed. I guess the files were picked up by the next of kin.
 
Mick said:
I don't know what Adobe Air does, but whatever that is, it apparently isn't necessary, or even important. I've had my present confuter for more than a year and a half now, and it doesn't have Adobe Air on it, and that doesn't seem to have affected anything.
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Adobe Air is a way for developers to use HTML-, Flash- and JavaScript-derived content together in a (relatively) user friendly format. In the UK it's used to power the BBC's iPlayer catch-up TV service, so those of us who are in the UK who use that service will have this changed icon issue; as it hasn't affected the performance of the .air file in any way, and as I think iPlayer is brilliant (I can watch the HD versions of programmes at my own convenience) I can live with the cosmetic change - but it is typical of Adobe that they didn't consider the impact this could have had on other programs.
 
AndyG43 said:
Adobe Air is a way for developers to use HTML-, Flash- and JavaScript-derived content together ... it is typical of Adobe that they didn't consider the impact this could have had on other programs.
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Thanks Andy!

So that's what Adobe Air is! And that's why I never had any use for it, or noticed any effects of its absence on my current confuter.
 
Yeah, they probably bundled it with an update to their Reader. I don't remember, it was so long ago, but they probably even offered the option of not taking it, but made it seem like something everyone should want and need. Since then I've updated the Reader, and I don't recall anything about Air being asked or offered along with the updates. Or maybe I just clicked No so fast that now I don't even recall being asked...?
 
You don't get 'asked' - there's an assumption that you want it, unless you actually clear a checkbox.
It's always in small print among a lot of other graphics - where they hope you won't notice it.

Cynical, aren't we?

Dave
 
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