yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Cross-Device General] vato4001:
don`t work

java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""

at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)

at com.btr.proxy.search.browser.firefox.FirefoxProxySearchStrategy.getProxySelector(FirefoxProxySearchStrategy.java:98)

at com.btr.proxy.search.ProxySearch.getProxySelector(ProxySearch.java:194)

at org.system.Proxy.setProxy(Proxy.java:30)

at gui.MainSWT.createContents(MainSWT.java:1253)

at gui.MainSWT.open(MainSWT.java:122)

at gui.Main.main(Main.java:46)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)

at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)

:(
[Sony Cross-Device General] zippy01:
Might be a bit early but is XZ1 support coming soon?
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
Chances are, but there is no support for XZ Premium and XZ1 will (think for sure) have same flashing protocol, so it can take time. Newflasher should already support XZ1 and XZ1 Compact.
[Sony Cross-Device General] zippy01:
Oooh thanks I didn't know about newflasher will search now
[Sony Cross-Device General] vato4001:
flashtool dont open what can i do?

java de-install re-install dosent work.

flashtool de-install and re-install doesnt work

cant flash anymore wtf ?

:(
[Sony Cross-Device General] Licaon_Kter:
What OS? Tried running as Admin/root?
[Sony Cross-Device General] AndriyeZ:
It won't recognised .TFT , already put. Tft file on Flashtool Firmware...used latest flashtool, latest Sony Z5C firmware...please help
[Sony Cross-Device General] vato4001:
win 7ultimate x64 admin (yes)

---------- Post added at 01:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:44 PM ----------

Problem:

java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""

at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unk nown Source)

at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)

at com.btr.proxy.search.browser.firefox.FirefoxProxyS earchStrategy.getProxySelector(FirefoxProxySearchS trategy.java:98)

at com.btr.proxy.search.ProxySearch.getProxySelector( ProxySearch.java:194)

at org.system.Proxy.setProxy(Proxy.java:30)

at gui.MainSWT.createContents(MainSWT.java:1253)

at gui.MainSWT.open(MainSWT.java:122)

at gui.Main.main(Main.java:46)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)

at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)

Solution: INSTALL FIREFOX! ??WTF ??

:D:laugh::D:good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] sieghartRM:
Thanks Bin4ry and Androxyde for a offline tool to flash Sony FTFs.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
My friend have strange problem with Flashtool and Windows 10. Log windows is empty and when he click the thunder button it does nothing.

We tried reinstalling Flashtool and some different versions of it and still nothing.

JAVA is newest, all drivers are OK, etc.

Any idea?
[Sony Cross-Device General] levone1:
Possible issue with anti-virus program? Installed as administrator? Run as administrator?... I've never heard of it doing nothing when clicking flash. You get no response at all?
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
Perhaps an overlay (?) is covering the UI...
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
[MENTION=6283426]levone1[/MENTION]

Not sure. Never had problems with AV so didn;t thought. Will see.

[MENTION=6891123]iXaidyiu[/MENTION]

Don't think so. Still, it could make button unusable, but it would br unclickable, right? And here it can be clicked, but than nothing happens. And it wouldn't affect the log.
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
Anyone here has any ideas about the difference between SSD and USERDATA? Are they meaning /data/media\ and /data\ respectively or SSD actually means other else?
[Sony Cross-Device General] skwal83:
i´using the newest flashtool

i try to flash a x compct

thats what flashtool is teeling me when its finished.

when i try to start i get: the software update failed.

what can i do?

the phone was on 34.2.A.2.69 before i do the flashing? why is flashtool tellling something about omnirom (which was on the phone a few days ago). 34.2.A.2.69 was´nt working really good, so i made the flash

by renmae twrp to boot and flash it i can get into twrp. wipe everything i can install omnirom so that i can use the phone.

when i use flashtool again to flash anyrom i get the same error as above.

i don´t know what to do anymore
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
Redownload firmware and flash again.
[Sony Cross-Device General] skwal83:
i tried many different versions, always the same problem
[Sony Cross-Device General] jamesdroid85:
Firmware Download

Hi,

A few weeks ago I downloaded and updated my z5. There is now another small update. Problem is now xperifirm does not open from flashtool anymore.

When I click it, nothing happens. Any Ideas?

Cheers
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
Read previous posts then you will know that in the latest version it is wrongly identified as a malware in recent anti-virus definition update, so its probably be removed due to this incident. Please refer to previous posts for references and solutions on how to solve this issue.
[Sony Cross-Device General] jamesdroid85:
Thanks. I will check more. Odd thing is, standalone xperifirm is fine, just the version integrated to flash tool has the issue.
[Sony Cross-Device General] sebasrock156:
When this have Xperia XZ Premium and Android Oreo support?
[Sony Cross-Device General] GryTEcHoG:
Hi,

I have a problem using the tool. I never had issues before, but today I tried to flash my Z3+ using flash tool, which ran fine but flashing process ended very quickly with success and asking me to turn on. And I tried to turn on my mobile, which says software update failed. Something is wrong and I do not know what it is. I tried different ftf files, but all are doing the same.

Any one please help me ?

Thnaks
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
Strange, but it seems that this ftf(s) u used is (are) missing system.sin and userdata.sin. There is no way to do full reflash without this two files. Could You make screenshot of the Flashtool after choosing firmware to flash?
[Sony Cross-Device General] GryTEcHoG:
Yes, its strange. I even tried to use old ftf which worked before. Here are the screens. Please help me as my device is bricked. I can flash kernel and restore from back ups but I get an error with that which is SystemUI stopped with all my backups. Using TWRP 3.1.0.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
Maybe try using newest version? Not sure which one You have, but if I remember it right. older than 0.9.23.2 didn't support Nougat and 0.9.23.1 had so many bugs that .2 was available the next day.

PS. Why not latest Android? I mean 32.4.A.1.54.
[Sony Cross-Device General] GryTEcHoG:
I used version 0.9.22.2 before and worked fine using same ftf. What I did today is tried to erase data partition using TWRP manually and rebooted which ended up with System UI stopped error. Then I tried to do factor reset, still I get same error. And I tried to restore from my back ups and they also throw same error. So I wanted to flash full rom using flash tool which is running fine but ends abruptly under 2 minutes with success and when I boot it throws software update failed.

I do not have latest ftf and currently fine with 7.0 as I customized it to my liking.

Any ideas why flashtool is not flashing system.sin, user data.sin ?

Thanks

EDIT: I tried to download latest version from here: http://www.flashtool.net/downloads_macos.php but it still shows only .1 with a jar file. can you tell me why ?
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
No idea, but maybe try to recreate .ftf using XperiFirm? It will take longer, but may work.
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
It's of no concern as long as there are no red lines.
[Sony Cross-Device General] culpritzky:
thank you for clearing that for me sir.. :good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] moses_dx:
will this be updated to support xz1?
[Sony Cross-Device General] moses_dx:
also, my z5 got bricked when flashing 7.1 firmware, be awared
[Sony Cross-Device General] -Happy Feet-:
That would be nice.
[Sony Cross-Device General] bytetemplar:
The MD5 value on download page (linux) does not match with the downloaded file?! Downloaded using torrent, trying to get from uploaded.to now to see if there is a difference, but slooow download from there.

This is bit concerning imo and hesitated to use it to flash my phone.

I did check the .7z and .tar and neither match... Can anyone check if they have also mismatching package and is there a reason for it? Maybe developer forgot to update it on webpage, which is bit disturbing also...

Edit1: Well, I cloned the project from git and compiled the tool myself in the end, just in case.

Edit2: Well, it seems the project is quite broken or build instructions are missing something. This has been reported in issues without any answer from dev too, shame!
[Sony Cross-Device General] djgigi94:
Guys i have a weird problem with my z2. Every time i use flashtool i have this error on screenshoot when i try to flash a firmware. With emma all works but there isn't latest firmware for z2. Now how i can do to get flashtool working? On z3+,xz and x no problems .Works perfectly. Sometimes works on z2 but after million of try. And after again that error. How i can do to fix this? I want latest firmware but i can't have so easily.
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
Try redownloading your fw and use the generic cable that the phone comes with.
[Sony Cross-Device General] djgigi94:
Tried every type of ftf but not worked. Now i try to unistall flashtool and install the previous version on flashtool site and strangelly worked. Thank you for the help ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
I'm trying to run it on Linux (Xubuntu 14.04), but got this error:

Running as root.
Used java home : ./x10flasher_lib/linjre32
./x10flasher_lib/linjre32/bin/java: 1: ./x10flasher_lib/linjre32/bin/java: ELF: not found
./x10flasher_lib/linjre32/bin/java: 2: ./x10flasher_lib/linjre32/bin/java: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Java is installed (or at last I think it is):

java version "1.8.0_151"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)
[Sony Cross-Device General] AndriyeZ:
any suggest guys?

java.io.EOFException: Have read only 524256 byte(s) instead of 708740 byte(s)

at com.igormaznitsa.jbbp.io.JBBPBitInputStream._readArray(JBBPBitInputStream.java:172)

at com.igormaznitsa.jbbp.io.JBBPBitInputStream.readByteArray(JBBPBitInputStream.java:212)

at org.sinfile.parsers.v3.SinParser.parseDataHeader(SinParser.java:101)

at org.sinfile.parsers.SinFile.<init>(SinFile.java:106)

at flashsystem.Bundle.getMaxProgress(Bundle.java:455)

at flashsystem.X10flash.sendLoader(X10flash.java:415)

at flashsystem.X10flash.flashDevice(X10flash.java:708)

at gui.tools.FlashJob.run(FlashJob.java:44)

at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

java.io.EOFException: Have read only 524256 byte(s) instead of 708740 byte(s)

at com.igormaznitsa.jbbp.io.JBBPBitInputStream._readArray(JBBPBitInputStream.java:172)

at com.igormaznitsa.jbbp.io.JBBPBitInputStream.readByteArray(JBBPBitInputStream.java:212)

at org.sinfile.parsers.v3.SinParser.parseDataHeader(SinParser.java:101)

at org.sinfile.parsers.SinFile.<init>(SinFile.java:106)

at flashsystem.X10flash.isBoot(X10flash.java:787)

at flashsystem.X10flash.sendSystem(X10flash.java:831)

at flashsystem.X10flash.oldFlashEngine(X10flash.java:866)

at flashsystem.X10flash.flashDevice(X10flash.java:717)

at gui.tools.FlashJob.run(FlashJob.java:44)

at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

org.sinfile.parsers.SinFileException: Have read only 524256 byte(s) instead of 708740 byte(s)

at org.sinfile.parsers.SinFile.<init>(SinFile.java:112)

at flashsystem.X10flash.isBoot(X10flash.java:787)

at flashsystem.X10flash.sendSystem(X10flash.java:831)

at flashsystem.X10flash.oldFlashEngine(X10flash.java:866)

at flashsystem.X10flash.flashDevice(X10flash.java:717)

at gui.tools.FlashJob.run(FlashJob.java:44)

at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)
[Sony Cross-Device General] dnnz:
I have a X Compact and have installed both drivers from drivers.exe "flashmode" and "fastboot" still flashtool is giving me this error:

24/057/2017 23:57:33 - ERROR - Drivers need to be installed for connected device.

24/057/2017 23:57:33 - ERROR - You can find them in the drivers folder of Flashtool.

The drivers specific to the X Compact are not in the list (like it does to older devices), what extra driver i need?
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
You have to install the drivers with disabled digital signature verification in Windows Advanced Boot Menu.
[Sony Cross-Device General] dnnz:
i did that, both are installed fine.

https://imgur.com/lIc6yn7
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
On latest version, v0.9.23.2?
[Sony Cross-Device General] dnnz:
Yes it's that version
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
Reinstall or try with another pc.
[Sony Cross-Device General] dnnz:
I tried all this:

- Download again and reinstall newer version

- Try with older version

This PC has windows 8.1, i tried in two other PCs with windows 10 and the result is different in those:

ERROR - No device is registered in Flashtool.

ERROR - You can only flash devices.

It's strange bc 2 months before everything was working fine in fact it was how i installed the latin FTF to have a fingerprint sensor, and then i didn't touch anything i had the drivers and latest flashtool already installed but this time is not working no matter what i do. It could be the latin firmware?
[Sony Cross-Device General] dnnz:
I tried with linux and flashtool is working.

Still i got some problems.

I got two popups:

There is a fsc file, you want to use it? i put YES

these data are not in the fsc script reset-kernel-cmd-debug. Continue? I put YES

The process failed.

Now when i start the phone it says "the software update failed. Make sure your phone is connected to the computer and try again".
[Sony Cross-Device General] williamgrant:
The flashtool doesn't works (and useless) with my new 2017 phone (XZ1 Compact), you can use THIS NEWFLASHER TOOL. It is not an uniqe problem with your PC or Phone.
[Sony Cross-Device General] iXaidyiu:
For the second prompt you should put no.
[Sony Cross-Device General] dnnz:
With the X Compact flashtool is working on Mac/Linux but not on Windows.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
A new version of Flashtool will be released very soon with support for XZPremium, XZ1 and XZ1 compact

This release will move from java8 to java9. As a consequence, Flashtool will not run on 32bits OS platforms as java9 is 64bits only
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
WOW! Amazing. Was waiting for that, as many users are afraid of Newflashers or at least no UI of it...
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
0.9.24.0 is the new one with support for XZ Premium and both XZ1?

Coz I'm trying to create .fsc script for Premium, but it seems that parsing doesn't work - no .fsc file or even any folder is created in /mydevices. At first try there is no log in USB Log Viewer after parsing window disappears and when tried again, whole app just freezes.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
I pushed FSC to devices repository and yes Flashtool can parse usb log for new devices (this is how I created my FSC) :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
I seem to not be able, however Fileset i tms file are little old (don't own any newer Xperia, just wanted to check).

Wanted to say that there is no fsc, but it seems You just pushed them ti GutHub.

If it's needed than Im attaching the device folders for XA1 Ultra, XA1 Plus, Touch and Hello!. Buth XA1 were tested on live devices, don't have Touch and Hello! so could only simulate them (should work as platform is same as with X and X Compact).
[Sony Cross-Device General] ch3mn3y:
However I seem to have problem. I created 8.59 CE1 for XZ1 Compact and trying to simulate it, but it got stuck twice on preparing files... 30 minutes is enough of that I think?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
Do you have a stderr file in flashtool folder?

Envoyé de mon G8341 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Sony Cross-Device General] russel5:
[MENTION=2807379]Androxyde[/MENTION] thanks for your work, you are awesome.

Trying parse log for xz1 compact with your 23.2 version, don't work. Now you fixed it and supported.

Great job!

---------- Post added at 11:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 PM ----------

Yes, FlashTool is freeze in simulate

Logs --> HERE
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
Strange I don't have any issue on my environment

Envoyé de mon G8341 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Sony Cross-Device General] russel5:
for me it's always freeze

and i used latest eclipse and java9 for compiled flashtool

on your site i'm not find any url to download official version
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
You have the same issue when you run it from eclipse?

Envoyé de mon G8341 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Sony Cross-Device General] russel5:
I'm not understand that question.

Trying on win 8.1 same here, freeze on modem, sometime go on next and freeze on vendor

Can you give us your version for testing?

With your official version same issue...
[Sony Cross-Device General] solarkraft:
Clicking "Create" in the Bundler (Linux, running 0.9.23.2 as root) causes a freeze with

.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
I found the issue. I was able to reproduce.

It is related to the windows executable wrapper
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
Try with this executable :

http://www.flashtool.net/torrents/patches/windows/FlashTool64.exe
[Sony Cross-Device General] russel5:
Great job, works fine now.

P.S. linux version not work. when choose flash it's freeze.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionListener.widgetSelectedAdapter(Ljava/util/function/Consumer;)Lorg/eclipse/swt/events/SelectionListener;
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.hookControl(StructuredViewer.java:1261)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ColumnViewer.hookControl(ColumnViewer.java:75)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.hookControl(AbstractTreeViewer.java:1490)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.hookControl(TreeViewer.java:242)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.<init>(TreeViewer.java:134)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.<init>(TreeViewer.java:121)
at gui.FTFSelector.createContents(FTFSelector.java:193)
at gui.FTFSelector.open(FTFSelector.java:85)
at gui.MainSWT.doFlashmode(MainSWT.java:1460)
at gui.MainSWT.doFlash(MainSWT.java:1441)
at gui.MainSWT$40.widgetSelected(MainSWT.java:1092)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:249)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:5227)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1340)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4561)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:4151)
at gui.MainSWT.open(MainSWT.java:187)
at gui.Main.main(Main.java:46)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
I know thats why I did not publish linux and mac versions yet :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] janjan:
Thank you very much for your great work. I was trying to extract FTF (boot.sin/kernel.sin and system.sin) from Sony xz1 compact but it seems it doesn't work. Extract from sin is not working/ sin editor and dump data option etc seems not working. Is there any other way to extract sin files.

I also tried to rename the kernel.sin into tar or kernel.tar and then used 7zip to extract it. Seems not working for me.
[Sony Cross-Device General] russel5:
Use this tool https://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/tool-unsin-sin-v3-unpacker-t3128106

Works perfect.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Androxyde:
Xperifirm author did a small tool for that. I have not yet implemented sin extraction for XZ1/c/premium sin format
[Sony Cross-Device General] eagleeyetom:
Hey guys,

I am trying to run the newest version of Flashtool, but I'm still getting this error:

java.lang.Error:

There is an incompatible JNA native library installed on this system

Expected: 5.2.0

Found: 5.1.0

C:\Flashtool\.\.;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151\bin;C:\Program Files\Python36\Scripts\;C:\Program Files\Python36\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files (x86)\FolderViewer;C:\Users\tomek\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Users\tomek\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools\;C:\Program Files\PuTTY\;C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\pub;C:\Program Files (x86)\Brackets\command;C:\Program Files\FileBot\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Java\jre-9.0.1\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG;C:\Users\tomek\AppData\Local\Keybase\;C:\Users\tomek\AppData\Roaming\npm;c:\flashtool\x10flasher_lib\winjre64\bin.

To resolve this issue you may do one of the following:

- remove or uninstall the offending library

- set the system property jna.nosys=true

- set jna.boot.library.path to include the path to the version of the

jnidispatch library included with the JNA jar file you are using

at com.sun.jna.Native.<clinit>(Native.java:199)

at com.sun.jna.Pointer.<clinit>(Pointer.java:54)

at com.sun.jna.Structure.<clinit>(Structure.java:2130)

at com.btr.jna.WinHttp.readSettings(WinHttp.java:11)

at com.btr.proxy.search.browser.ie.IEProxySearchStrategy.getProxySelector(IEProxySearchStrategy.java:46)

at com.btr.proxy.search.ProxySearch.getProxySelector(ProxySearch.java:194)

at org.system.Proxy.setProxy(Proxy.java:30)

at gui.MainSWT.createContents(MainSWT.java:1256)

at gui.MainSWT.open(MainSWT.java:124)

at gui.Main.main(Main.java:46)

at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(LauncherEngine.java:81)

at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(WinLauncher.java:94)

Any ideas what can be wrong on my side?
[Sony Cross-Device General] vooR9er:
https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75141403&postcount=3641
[Sony Cross-Device General] munjeni:
This one can extract any sony format https://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/tool-unpack-format-sony-kernel-image-t3530077
[Sony Cross-Device General] eagleeyetom:
I have both Java 9 JDK and JRE installed. I will try to remove Java 8 then.
[Sony Cross-Device General] russel5:
No this can't, system is broken. I'm trying
[Sony Cross-Device General] eagleeyetom:
After one hour of searching, I found the suspect: File Bot ;) Uninstalling it and removing from PATH did the trick. Thanks!