[Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs

Tue Jul 24 12:26:41 BST 2012

Well as far as I am aware we made a successful import display the
correct message last week?

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> But my screenshot was from the techdis install which has all the latest svn
> code.
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>
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
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> Sent: 24 July 2012 12:06
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs
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> Nice one,
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>
>
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 24 July 2012 12:06
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs
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>
>
> the SVN has been updated to fix the rogue html issue
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> ok
>
> when trying to import a zip which contains a parent folder
>
> both 1.8 and 1.7 result in a message about trying to unzip a folder name.
> Both result in a project appearing in the workspace but can't be previewed
> or edited.
>
>
>
> Error! Filename not specified.
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>
>
> BTW
>
> when importing a zip without a parent folder both work ok but also give a
> message with rogue html
>
> Error! Filename not specified.
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
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> Sent: 24 July 2012 11:20
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs
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>
>
> Yes, I know, but that's what I wanted some one to test as it sounded like
> when Simon imported a zip made in that way it wasn't trapped by the import
> code.
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>
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
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>> that doesn't work and never has as far as I'm aware.
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>> When you export from XOT or package from xerte it doesn't create a zip
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>> with a parent folder inside it so this only really happens when people
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>> zip manually and select the folder rather than the folder contents.
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>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
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>> Sent: 24 July 2012 11:01
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>> To: Xerte discussion list
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>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs
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>>
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>> what happens if the root of the zip is a folder (which is what i think
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>> Simon was suggesting)?
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>>
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>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Ron Mitchell
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>> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
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>> wrote:
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>>> Not sure what you want tested Pat?
>
>>> Import works in 1.8 and 1.7 just fine as far as I can tell - as long
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>>> as the rlt and xml files are in the root of the zip.
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>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
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>>> Lockley
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>>> Sent: 24 July 2012 09:48
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>>> To: Xerte discussion list
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>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs
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>>>
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>>> hmmmm, but if the importer doesn't find an RLO it should fail (and it
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>>> won't go looking in a subfolder)
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>>>
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>>> Can some one test this?
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>>>
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>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Simon Wood <WoodSN2 at cardiff.ac.uk>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Aha!
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>>>>
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>>>> Thanks Ron.
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>>>>
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>>>> I had tried both ways with OSX's built in zipper. But either way
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>>>> produced
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>>> the same result.
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>>>>
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>>>> Following your email I thought: I'll give it a try dropping all the
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>>>> files
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>>> (not in a folder) onto Yemu.
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>>>>
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>>>> It works!
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>>>>
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>>>> Obviously OSX tried to be "clever" and automatically added an
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>>>> enclosing
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>>> folder.
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>>>>
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>>>> THANK YOU!
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>>>>
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>>>> Simon
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>>>>
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>>>> On 23 Jul 2012, at 19:43, Ron Mitchell wrote:
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>>>>
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>>>>> Are you selecting the parent folder when zipping on the contents of
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>>>>> 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
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>>>>>
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>>>>> \learningobject.rlt
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>>>>> not
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>>>>> \Making_multimedia_interactive_with_Xerte\learningobject.rlt
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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>>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon
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>>>>> Wood
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>>>>> Sent: 20 July 2012 14:41
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>>>>> To: Xerte discussion list
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>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing re-zipped LOs
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>>>>>
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>>>>> Julian sent me the one he used (thanks Julian); it imports fine on
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>>>>> our XOT install, think it may therefore be something to do with
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>>>>> zipping software I'm using rather than our XOT install...
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>>>>>
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>>>>> On 20 Jul 2012, at 14:16, Julian Tenney wrote:
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>>>>>
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>>>>>> I just tried that with the beta code for 1.8 and it works OK.
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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>>>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon
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>>>>>> Wood
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>>>>>> Sent: 20 July 2012 14:13
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>>>>>> To: Xerte discussion list
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>>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Importing re-zipped LOs
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Whilst I can import LOs into our XOT install now (thanks to Pat's
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>>>>>> tireless
>
>>>>> efforts) I am encountering a problem with "re-zipped" LOs.
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> If I import a LO that I previously exported, no problem. However,
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>>>>>> if I
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>>>>> unzip that LO and then rezip it, it appears to import but when I
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>>>>> try to preview or edit it, it is "empty". On the server the
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>>>>> data.xml file is missing an the preview.xml file is 0B.
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> I've tried using the zip built into OS X 10.6, and YemuZip which
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>>>>>> can
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>>>>> produce a "PC Zip" ie clean of OS X resource forks. Neither work.
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Is anyone else having problem importing re-zipped learning objects?
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>>>>>> The
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>>>>> reason I ask is because I was sent to LOs zipped together and to
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>>>>> import them I need to split them out.
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Simon
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> - -
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>>>>>> Simon Wood
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