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    Unable to open file (String was not recognized as a valid DateTime)

    Was Downloading a truck pcm and this message came up "Unable to open file String was not recognized as a valid DateTime"
    Here is a little history of the truck. The truck was tuned in Houston and then was tuned back to stock, now he is in south texas Mcallen to be exact, i try to download his pcm and that massage came up, but it still keept going trough the download, then i saved it the massage came up again and made the truck not turned on so i did it all over again and the message came up again but this time did not save it and it turned on. Need some help....

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    Try setting your Date & time format to Month/Day/year, in every case I've seen that has been the reason for this error.
    It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to be done in two weeks...

    A wise man once said "google it"

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    thanks ill try it out.

    09/06/12 - thanks it worked, just changed the date format to (Month/Day/Year)
    Last edited by MarcoTechRGV; 09-06-2012 at 11:24 PM.

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    Hi
    Hi have the same problem. Where I need to change date.
    Sorry bad English.. I speak french



    Thank for your help

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