diff --git a/common/modules/mixly-modules/electron/ampy-fs.js b/common/modules/mixly-modules/electron/ampy-fs.js
index 39d4520c..2b55a0bf 100644
--- a/common/modules/mixly-modules/electron/ampy-fs.js
+++ b/common/modules/mixly-modules/electron/ampy-fs.js
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ class AmpyFS extends FS {
     #ampy_ = null;
     #port_ = '';
     #baud_ = 115200;
+    #decoder_ = new TextDecoder('utf8');
 
     constructor() {
         super();
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ class AmpyFS extends FS {
         try {
             const output = await this.#ampy_.get(this.#port_, this.#baud_, filePath);
             stdout = output.stdout;
-            stdout = stdout.replaceAll('\r\r', '\r');
+            stdout = this.#decoder_.decode(this.#ampy_.unhexlify(stdout));
         } catch (e) {
             error = e;
             Debug.error(error);
diff --git a/common/modules/mixly-modules/electron/ampy.js b/common/modules/mixly-modules/electron/ampy.js
index a05cd365..441c3b8b 100644
--- a/common/modules/mixly-modules/electron/ampy.js
+++ b/common/modules/mixly-modules/electron/ampy.js
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class AmpyExt extends Ampy {
             ampy: this.AMPY_PATH
         });
     }
+
     #exec_ = util.promisify(child_process.exec);
 
     constructor() {
diff --git a/tools/python/ampy/cli.py b/tools/python/ampy/cli.py
index 1e7ee7dd..bb175240 100644
--- a/tools/python/ampy/cli.py
+++ b/tools/python/ampy/cli.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import platform
 import posixpath
 import re
 import serial.serialutil
-
+import binascii
 import click
 import dotenv
 
@@ -157,9 +157,11 @@ def get(remote_file, local_file):
     contents = board_files.get(remote_file)
     # Print the file out if no local file was provided, otherwise save it.
     if local_file is None:
-        print(contents.decode("utf-8"))
+        contents = str(contents)[2:-1]
+        print(contents, end='')
     else:
-        local_file.write(contents)
+        value = binascii.unhexlify(contents)
+        local_file.write(value.decode("utf-8"))
 
 
 @cli.command()
diff --git a/tools/python/ampy/files.py b/tools/python/ampy/files.py
index 32aea722..2fd7364d 100644
--- a/tools/python/ampy/files.py
+++ b/tools/python/ampy/files.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 # SOFTWARE.
 import ast
 import textwrap
-import binascii
 import sys
 
 from pyboard import PyboardError
@@ -84,7 +83,7 @@ class Files(object):
             except UnicodeDecodeError:
                 raise ex
         self._pyboard.exit_raw_repl()
-        return binascii.unhexlify(out)
+        return out
 
     def ls(self, directory="/", long_format=True, recursive=False, exit_repl=True):
         """List the contents of the specified directory (or root if none is