Comments on: Adobe Air causing major conflicts for Flight Sim users http://www.flightsimdaily.com/announcements/adobe-air-causing-major-conflicts-for-flight-sim-users/ Daily flight simulator news covering the worlds of X-Plane, Microsoft Flight Simulator and other sims Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: mark.avey http://www.flightsimdaily.com/announcements/adobe-air-causing-major-conflicts-for-flight-sim-users/comment-page-1/#comment-27655 mark.avey Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:39:59 +0000 http://www.flightsimdaily.com/?p=2692#comment-27655 Fair point re Adobe letting people know, Ed. Fair point re Adobe letting people know, Ed.

]]> By: Ed http://www.flightsimdaily.com/announcements/adobe-air-causing-major-conflicts-for-flight-sim-users/comment-page-1/#comment-27650 Ed Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:34:57 +0000 http://www.flightsimdaily.com/?p=2692#comment-27650 When the .air files are called within Flight Simulator, the operating system is calling the associated application, Adobe Air, which then fails to correctly open the file and throw an error because the file is a FS file not an AA file. This can be rectified by reassociating .air extensions to FS in the control panel but I do feel that Adobe should accept some responsibility for this. Their <a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/air/" rel="nofollow">support website</a> doesn't mention anything about this issue and although Oliver is doing the rounds informing people, surely a note on the Adobe support site would be more appropriate. When the .air files are called within Flight Simulator, the operating system is calling the associated application, Adobe Air, which then fails to correctly open the file and throw an error because the file is a FS file not an AA file. This can be rectified by reassociating .air extensions to FS in the control panel but I do feel that Adobe should accept some responsibility for this. Their support website doesn’t mention anything about this issue and although Oliver is doing the rounds informing people, surely a note on the Adobe support site would be more appropriate.

]]> By: mark.avey http://www.flightsimdaily.com/announcements/adobe-air-causing-major-conflicts-for-flight-sim-users/comment-page-1/#comment-27628 mark.avey Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:40:16 +0000 http://www.flightsimdaily.com/?p=2692#comment-27628 Hi Oliver. Thanks for taking the time to comment. One of the comments on the forum linked to above mentions that Adobe Air caused corruption to the posters .air files. Does Adobe Air modify the files in any way? Hi Oliver. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

One of the comments on the forum linked to above mentions that Adobe Air caused corruption to the posters .air files. Does Adobe Air modify the files in any way?

]]> By: Oliver Goldman http://www.flightsimdaily.com/announcements/adobe-air-causing-major-conflicts-for-flight-sim-users/comment-page-1/#comment-27620 Oliver Goldman Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:15:03 +0000 http://www.flightsimdaily.com/?p=2692#comment-27620 Apologies for the trouble. We tried to pick an extension that was not widely used, but as noted, it's virtaally impossible to choose one that isn't used at all. (And no, this issue did not come up during beta testing.) In any case, file type associations are ultimately in the user's control. Under Folder Options > File Types, you can re-associate .air with Flight Simulator. Also, for any given .air file, you should be able to select between relevant applications by right-clicking and selecting Open With. Hope that helps, Oliver Goldman | Adobe AIR Engineering Apologies for the trouble. We tried to pick an extension that was not widely used, but as noted, it’s virtaally impossible to choose one that isn’t used at all. (And no, this issue did not come up during beta testing.)

In any case, file type associations are ultimately in the user’s control. Under Folder Options > File Types, you can re-associate .air with Flight Simulator. Also, for any given .air file, you should be able to select between relevant applications by right-clicking and selecting Open With.

Hope that helps,
Oliver Goldman | Adobe AIR Engineering

]]> By: mark.avey http://www.flightsimdaily.com/announcements/adobe-air-causing-major-conflicts-for-flight-sim-users/comment-page-1/#comment-27600 mark.avey Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:17:51 +0000 http://www.flightsimdaily.com/?p=2692#comment-27600 Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by the extension being "reserved". Anyone is able to use any extension they wish. A quick look at <a href="http://www.file-extensions.org/search/?searchstring=air&search.x=0&search.y=0&search=Search" rel="nofollow">this site</a> reveals a few others that use it, and that was just by doing a quick Google. As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, we flight simulators are a tiny minority of PC users. It's therefore not impossible that this problem never came up in beta testing. And, let's face it, there's no developer of any size that can test their application against every single other application - they'd never get it released. Also, how could this cost them millions of dollars? Why would it cost them anything at all? It's not good, I'd agree - hence my pointing it out in the first place, but with a little care, we should be able to avoid any problems. Thanks for the comment.

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by the extension being “reserved”. Anyone is able to use any extension they wish. A quick look at this site reveals a few others that use it, and that was just by doing a quick Google.

As much as I’d like to believe otherwise, we flight simulators are a tiny minority of PC users. It’s therefore not impossible that this problem never came up in beta testing. And, let’s face it, there’s no developer of any size that can test their application against every single other application – they’d never get it released.

Also, how could this cost them millions of dollars? Why would it cost them anything at all?

It’s not good, I’d agree – hence my pointing it out in the first place, but with a little care, we should be able to avoid any problems.

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