Error message when trying to open .fz file

[Prisoner627]

Hello everybody, I’m new on the forum and also on Fritzing. I would like to open a .fz file but when loaded I obtain this error…

Anyone could help me, please?
Thanx a lot!

Teo
ITALY

[RAPTOR7762]

@Prisoner627 You can’t open a .fz file. Please see

Understanding Different Fritzing File Types

This topic is about different Fritzing file types .fzpz A zip file and a Fritzing part file type Contains .fzp .svg - breadboard, schematic (, icon, PCB) .fzz A zip file and a Fritzing Sketch File Contains .fz .fzp .svg - breadboard, schematic (, icon, PCB) .fzbz A zip file and a Fritzing Bin (library) file Contains .fzb .fzp .svg- breadboard, schematic (, icon, PCB)

[KjellM]

What is this file supposed to contain?

I doubt Asus is using Fritzing for their VM40B mini PC. It also doesn’t appear very hackable.

[KjellM]

.fz is used for unpacked Fritzing sketches. You can open them.

They are just not “portable”, opening on a different PC might fail due to missing dependencies. It will still succeed if the project only uses core parts, and preferably also the same Fritzing version.

However, in general, .fz files from random sources usually can not be opened, simply because they are not real Fritzing files, they just have the same file suffix. If someone publishes a Fritzing sketch, they would always use the .fzp format. Only valid exception I can think of is for development purpose, e.g. to debug Fritzing.