Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Need help reading off line ACARS files

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Need help reading off line ACARS files

DVA11943
Captain, B767-300
OLP

Joined on January 10 2014
50 State Club
Piston Prop Professional
US Coastal Club
Online Double Century Club
Event Half Century Club
Stage 1 Turboprop Century Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Cocoa Beach, FL

326 legs, 560.0 hours
264 legs, 472.6 hours online
311 legs, 536.4 hours ACARS
56 legs, 102.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on October 18 2016 15:37 ET by Albert Thomas

This this problem was partially partially brought up in a non-technical channel but remains unsolved. I have been using ACARS for almost every flight. Installed Windows 10 and ACARS worked fine. Then Windows 10 updated. ACARS now works fine during flight but now when I want to look at a saved ACARS file windows says it doesn't know how to open the files. (Worked fine in Windows 7 and before the update). The data is off line and saved to my documents in an ACARS directory. Now each flight is saved as two files - a *.sha and *.xml where * = ACARS number. Will appreciate any ideas.

Albert Thomas (DVA11943)

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,306 legs, 9,290.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,964 legs, 8,083.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,342 legs, 9,424.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on October 19 2016 13:42 ET by Luke Kolin

They're just text files. You can view them with notepad or textpad.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on October 20 2016 12:53 ET by Albert Thomas

Please see post "Need help reading ACARS files II. I put up the new post to show what I see. Thanks

Albert Thomas (DVA11943)

Posted onPost created on October 24 2016 07:50 ET by Albert Thomas

Thanks for interest. I've solved problem - it was the browser which automatically opened the zip file before saving.

Albert Thomas (DVA11943)

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