[Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs

[Pat Lockley]

hmmmm, but if the importer doesn't find an RLO it should fail (and it
won't go looking in a subfolder)

Can some one test this?

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Simon Wood <WoodSN2 at cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:
> Aha!
>
> Thanks Ron.
>
> I had tried both ways with OSX's built in zipper. But either way produced the same result.
>
> Following your email I thought: I'll give it a try dropping all the files (not in a folder) onto Yemu.
>
> It works!
>
> Obviously OSX tried to be "clever" and automatically added an enclosing folder.
>
> THANK YOU!
>
> Simon
>
> On 23 Jul 2012, at 19:43, Ron Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Are you selecting the parent folder when zipping on the contents of the
>> folder? Your learningobject.rlt and associated files needs to be inside the
>> root of the zip not inside a folder e.g. you need
>>
>> \learningobject.rlt
>> not
>> \Making_multimedia_interactive_with_Xerte\learningobject.rlt
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Wood
>> Sent: 20 July 2012 14:41
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Wood
>>> Sent: 20 July 2012 14:13
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Importing re-zipped LOs
>>>
>>> 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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