[ctuna]

As the last guy said turn off file manipulation that means you
are not dealing with any files . You are just telling the car to
copy the contents of the VO for the the particular module you
select from the VO (stored in the Cas and Frm in your car)
back into the module you select.
Should be called return to stock programing/coding



If you remember when you started coding most of the procedures tell
you to make up a back up copy of the VO , which contains the coding
for everything in the car in one mass file. (Usually about 225 k in size.)
That data is still siting in the VO.

When you default code (and I wish they wouldn't call it that)
(should be called VO coding)
you turn off file manipulation or use the profile that turns off file
manipulation . It reads the value from the Vo( Frm or Cas )for the module
you selected and programs that back into the module.
Returns to stock settings for options which is not the same
as updating the firmware for the module.

So when somebody said default coding I started questioning
what that was ?
Default from the board manufacturer in which case would it
be a clean slate .(or would they pre program and test it?)
Then people started talking about programing with a blank file
which sounds strange , that would certainty return it to blank state
right.?!.

What they really mean is VO programming.
Data comes from the VO about the original configuration.
With file manipulation turned off.