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WASM, what does it mean?

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42 minutes ago, Mace said:

I think he gave you the 2020 folders.

Rob gave you the correct folders for 2024, which is what you said you were flying.

Which one is correct as I don’t know which one is Rob.

Jack Sawyer

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  • speedyTC
    speedyTC

    It's Windows. It's Microsoft.

  • btacon
    btacon

    That’s easy Jack. WASM means “White Anglo Saxon Male”.  😆😇😆 Blue skies, -B

  • LORD_
    LORD_

    Hey Jack, This actually happened to me too. It turned out to be outdated or incompatible WASM files (probably from airports or aircraft that haven’t been updated to match the current sim or aircr

2 hours ago, SayAgain said:

From a PC flight simmer, WASM is pointless for my needs and just slows things down and adds a layer of development complexity not needed or wanted.

WASM does provide a level of security benefit to end users. As now developers no longer have things like direct memory access or low level api access, it's all required to be done through the simconnect SDK. 

While it does add more complexity for developers, it has the added benefit security for the end user.

Where Asobo went wrong was not having proper abstraction layers for a number of things that developers needed, like the recently added datacomm feature, camera api, native simconnect support etc etc.

WASM wasn't the problem area, Asobo slow-paced support for the "forced" transition to WASM was.

44 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Which one is correct as I don’t know which one is Rob.

MS Store: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\WASM

Steam: %APPDATA%\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024\WASM

Rob.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan

5 hours ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Which one is correct as I don’t know which one is Rob.

Sorry.  I should have said SayAgain.

Rhett

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5 minutes ago, Mace said:

Sorry.  I should have said SayAgain.

No problem, thanks.

Jack Sawyer

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23 hours ago, SayAgain said:

 

MS Store: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\WASM

Steam: %APPDATA%\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024\WASM

Rob.

Dang! I $%&*$#@ DETEST Windows. I try to simply copy the WASM folder or even what's inside it and I get this lousy message. ARGH!

https://i.postimg.cc/wB7cx02p/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2-29-50-PM.png

 

Jack Sawyer

24 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

copy the WASM folder

“Your organization”?  Is this on a work computer?  Where were you trying to copy the files/folder to?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan

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Just now, SayAgain said:

“Your organization”?  Is this on a work computer?  Where were you trying to copy the files/folder to?

Personal PC built by Jetline for 2024 use only. Nothing else, I use Macs for my comics, writing, and email. I was trying to make a backup copy and place it on a separate SSD before deleting the contents as indicated above by someone.

Jack Sawyer

15 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Personal PC built by Jetline for 2024 use only. Nothing else, I use Macs for my comics, writing, and email. I was trying to make a backup copy and place it on a separate SSD before deleting the contents as indicated above by someone.

It sounds like an interesting way to set up a sim rig, as noted "your organization" in that warning dialog makes it sound like you have a domain and your machine is a workstation in that domain.  Or maybe there is some virtual machine thing going on here.  Hard for me to know without being on your machine.  It could just be a matter of permissions on that folder.

When you right click on the WASM folder, and select "Properties", Security tab.   This should pop up a dialog/subwindow.   There should be an "Edit" button in the middle of that dialog.  Under edit, select the "Users" group and then see if "Full Control" checkbox is checked.    If it's not, if you check that checkbox it might allow you to copy out of the WASM folder -- assuming that's what you're trying to do.   

If it doesn't then your machine might be pretty locked down, or at least it's probably something JetLine could help you with...they set up the machine, they build PC's for sims, they should be able to help.

Rhett

7800X3D 96 GB G.Skill Flare  Gigabyte 4090  Crucial P5 Plus 2TB

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10 minutes ago, Mace said:

It sounds like an interesting way to set up a sim rig, as noted "your organization" in that warning dialog makes it sound like you have a domain and your machine is a workstation in that domain.  Or maybe there is some virtual machine thing going on here.  Hard for me to know without being on your machine.  It could just be a matter of permissions on that folder.

When you right click on the WASM folder, and select "Properties", Security tab.   This should pop up a dialog/subwindow.   There should be an "Edit" button in the middle of that dialog.  Under edit, select the "Users" group and then see if "Full Control" checkbox is checked.    If it's not, if you check that checkbox it might allow you to copy out of the WASM folder -- assuming that's what you're trying to do.   

If it doesn't then your machine might be pretty locked down, or at least it's probably something JetLine could help you with...they set up the machine, they build PC's for sims, they should be able to help.

I just tried this. I’ll post some screenshots. There are four “Users” and they all have Full Control already ticked. The WASM folder has a lock icon on it. 
 

I’ll have to contact Jetline.

Jack Sawyer

On 5/6/2026 at 12:17 AM, btacon said:

That’s easy Jack. WASM means “White Anglo Saxon Male”.  😆😇😆

Blue skies,

-B

It's actually Joe Dolce.

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What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah shaddap-a you face!
That's-a my mama, I can remember!

 

34 minutes ago, Mace said:

It sounds like an interesting way to set up a sim rig, as noted "your organization" in that warning dialog makes it sound like you have a domain and your machine is a workstation in that domain.  Or maybe there is some virtual machine thing going on here.  Hard for me to know without being on your machine.

Windows thinks that every user is part of an organisation. Why is there an option to "run as administrator" if that is not the case?

Christopher Low

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5 minutes ago, The_Flying_Potato said:

It's actually Joe Dolce.

 

I’m sorry but I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Is it from TV? I haven’t watched one minute of it for 37 years.

Jack Sawyer

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1 minute ago, Christopher Low said:

Windows thinks that every user is part of an organisation. Why is there an option to "run as administrator" if that is not the case?

Thanks Christopher, common sense question.

Jack Sawyer

24 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Windows thinks that every user is part of an organisation. Why is there an option to "run as administrator" if that is not the case?

Wha? No, that's not true, Windows certainly doesn't think every user is part of an organization. 

Run as administrator is because windows is a multi-user operating system (like basically every OS these days and for over 25 years now), and when you have multiple users, you also have to ensure permissions are managed (you don't want every user to have access to every other user's files, that defeats the purpose of a multi-user system). And when you have multiple users, some with limited rights.. you have to have a superuser/administrator user that can do anything to anyone. 

Linux is exactly the same, and I'm pretty certain you don't think that Linux of all things (all distros) is a "corporate-focused" OS. Linux calls it the root user or the superuser, Windows (and MacOS) call it the Admin user. 

If you want a single user OS these days - HaikuOS comes to mind. No users. You turn on the machine and use it. Like MSDos back in the day. 

 

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