[Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs

[Simon Wood]

Julian sent me the one he used (thanks Julian); it imports fine on our XOT install, think it may therefore be something to do with zipping software I'm using rather than our XOT install...

On 20 Jul 2012, at 14:16, Julian Tenney wrote:

> I just tried that with the beta code for 1.8 and it works OK.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Wood
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> Subject: [Xerte] Importing re-zipped LOs
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> Whilst I can import LOs into our XOT install now (thanks to Pat's tireless efforts) I am encountering a problem with "re-zipped" LOs.
> 
> If I import a LO that I previously exported, no problem. However, if I unzip that LO and then rezip it, it appears to import but when I try to preview or edit it, it is "empty". On the server the data.xml file is missing an the preview.xml file is 0B.
> 
> I've tried using the zip built into OS X 10.6, and YemuZip which can produce a "PC Zip" ie clean of OS X resource forks. Neither work.
> 
> Is anyone else having problem importing re-zipped learning objects? The reason I ask is because I was sent to LOs zipped together and to import them I need to split them out.
> 
> Simon
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