Simviation Forum - FILE

Mar 2^nd, 2004 at 11:34am

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Can anyone tell me what a "File_id.diz" file is? Is it one that FS needs to use a scenery add on? Can I remove it? It does not look like a system file. ???

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Reply #1 - Mar 2^nd, 2004 at 11:41am

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Delete it if you wish. It's simply the file description for the webmaster. The same thing you see on the download page next to the files. You can open it in Notepad to check it out.

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Reply #2 - Mar 2^nd, 2004 at 11:41am

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I think it is the one to load up the 3d scenary files, f-16
you should't erase it or your game'll crash

why do you want to erase it anyway? ???

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Reply #3 - Mar 2^nd, 2004 at 11:43am

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i was wrong. if it is not in any program file the simply erase it.
just be sure it's not a cfg file Cheesy

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Reply #4 - Mar 2^nd, 2004 at 11:46am

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I think it is the one to load up the 3d scenary files, f-16
you should't erase it or your game'll crash

why do you want to erase it anyway? ???

DIZ is a format recognised by WinZip. Nothing to do with FS at all.

Deleting the File_id.diz will do no harm. They are such small files it's not worth worrying about. Roll Eyes

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FILE_ID.DIZ was originally created by Clark Development (creators of the" PCBoard" BBS software) for use with their PCBDescribe sysop utility, as a means for shareware authors to provide accurate descriptions of their products, and so that BBS callers could upload files without having to manually type in a file description. It has since been widely accepted as the "standard" file description source. (The extension of "DIZ" actually stands for "Description In Zip").

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Reply #5 - Mar 2^nd, 2004 at 11:50am

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Thanks guys... I was able to see it in notepad and it is a description file. I will delete it.

Thanks for your quick replies.

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Reply #6 - Mar 2^nd, 2004 at 8:45pm

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DELETE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Angry

Those things are soooo annoying! Grin

Like Hagar said, its not important to the person who downloads it- only the webmaster.

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Reply #7 - Mar 2^nd, 2004 at 11:51pm

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It is important to the person downloading a file...

the file_id.diz is what tells you what you are getting.

Of course, once you have it, you don't need it.

Steve (Silver Fox) Daly

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Reply #8 - Mar 3^rd, 2004 at 2:08pm

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It is important to the person downloading a file...

the file_id.diz is what tells you what you are getting.

Of course, once you have it, you don't need it.

Oh yeah, good point

But hopefully you know what you are downloading before you actually download it;D Wink

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Reply #9 - Mar 3^rd, 2004 at 2:43pm

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The average size of a File_id.diz is 30 Kb. This would hardly make any difference or affect anything at all. The ones I've seen aren't installed to the sim anyway. That's providing you install the files properly of course. Wink

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Reply #10 - Mar 3^rd, 2004 at 2:54pm

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I personally like to keep description files, in case I need to know who the author was, or where to download it again Wink

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Reply #11 - Mar 3^rd, 2004 at 4:44pm

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I personally like to keep description files, in case I need to know who the author was, or where to download it again Wink

Another good point

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