Help!! I screwed up by installing adobe update

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I wasn't paying attention and installed an adobe reader update...now all my airfiles are called installers and the icon has changed to some kind of adobe thing. Is there a way out of this?Boy do I feel dumb!!!!
 
Forget about it

It does not affect the sim.

You don't open .air files anyway. FS9 will continue to use them as before,.

Adobe just went and used an unregistered file extension just like MS did. It just happened to be the .air file extension.

There are other file extensions in your PC that likely have other uses as well. An old back up software I used to use for phone systems saved the files as .mp3 long before mp3 was a sound file.
 
It just changed the association. The air files should still work fine in FS. If you had the .air filetype set to open with an airfile editor, you should be able to right-click > open with and select your editor, checking the "always use" box. Personally, I just use the drag & drop method to open mine. I just drag the air file onto the icon for either AirEd or AAM and open them that way.

Adobe Air is (I think - I could be wrong) a cousin of Adobe Flash, but I haven't seen it catch on like Flash did.
 
You'll be fine. I've seen screenies of people's aircraft folders with the Adobe icon in there and their sim still ran fine.
 
Just right click on one of the offending files and tell it to always open with aired and everything will go back to normal.

Cheers, Paul
 
I just deleted Adobe Air program from my add/remove programs about 2 years ago when it did its thing to my air files after I had installed Adobe 9 reader. It didn't effect the reader and have never missed it. When I get updates now it has never reinstalled it. Or you can leave as is like its been suggested.
Gary
 
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