Strange characters in Console .awd reports
Anyone knows what causes this behavior?
In Console > system reports all .awd reports have characters like this
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Solution 1:
This behavior is caused by the Console app attempting to read the .awd binary data as text. All computer data is binary, and the file type/extension indicates what those 1s and 0s mean.
Though I am not familiar with .awd files I have encountered garbled text like this when, for instance, opening .png files in a code editor. Try opening them in another application.