hi I hope someone understands this and hopefully able to help,(sorry for the poor explanation)

I have just noticed an issue with searching for a zipped file, in certain cases which i will try to explain.

if using a windows search and/or looking at folders/drives that contain zipped files I have no issues, and all look like they show up. but when a program is running and is looking for a zipped file no zipped files are shown.

so as an example  i use the aig oci manager for my ai aircraft and as one of my payware ai aircraft has been updated then oci picked it up It informed me that i had to manually download the new zipped file (which I have done). But when the program asks for the location of the file and brings up a window which looks the same as the normal explorer search window and I point it to the location of the file there are no visable zipped files shown, despite the file being there or any other zipped files for that matter.

I have posted on the aig site and looked on the internet for an answer but can find nothing does any guru's have any ideas?

Thanks

From your description, it sounds like the software is not looking for a zip file. Along the bottom of the window will be a drop down list of the extension it is looking for. If you can't change the file type tp zip, you might need to extract the file first. 

But I'm not familiar with your program.