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<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:50:12 +0000<br>From: shirley.crawford@st-austell.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte import error<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hiya</span></a></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for your reply but need to clarify:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">When using media – images, video etc. – during the creation of an LO, Xerte uploads these files from my local machine and stores them in a file area that I cannot see on the Xerte Server.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#c00000">In a folder called media in the specific project folder:</font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#c00000">{project_area}/media/the_media_files</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">After creating a Xerte Zip export and downloading it to my local machine, I realised that the file size was larger than expected. When I unzipped the file I saw that a couple of video clips – each about 5MB in size were still within the zip even though they are no longer used in the LO. They had been used but I subsequently deleted the pages where I deployed them.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#c00000">Highlight the project, choose Properties > Media and quota tab.</font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#c00000">Then use the red X to delete the unused files.</font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I deleted the two video files from the zip folder and then rezipped the rest.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">After uploading the modified zip file back to the sandpit, it creates the “Message from Webpage” which I included in my first email. Again, the LO appears to have imported but nothing appears on preview.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); ">Try doing the deletions above, then export.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); ">Manually deleting media from the zip may screw the manifest up.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#c00000"><br></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br></p></div></div> </div></body>
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