Download and unpacking problems

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Topic author
Frank Hunter

Download and unpacking problems

Post #1by Frank Hunter » 05.01.2005, 00:43

Chris,

I am new to Celistia but catching up .

Educational Add-ons not downloading correctly. Long periods of inactivity. Unpacking some files which did download resulted in Stuffit_Expander freezing and producing Error message:-
(Tried to position to before start of file).

Stuffit_Expander checks out OK.

I tried the unzip utility (for Mac), but got the same results but no Error message. Downloads 2 to 9 inclusive will not unpack.
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Thanks
Frank Hunter

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Post #2by alphap1us » 05.01.2005, 06:58

Hi again Frank,
The long periods of inactivity indicate that the problems is your connection. If you are using Safari under 10.3, you should press the 'stop' button in the download window and hit it again when it changes to 'reload.' This will cause Safari to extablish a new connection and resume downloading. Somehting similar shoudl work for other browsers on other OS's.

HTH,
Joe

Topic author
Frank Hunter

Download and unpacking problems

Post #3by Frank Hunter » 05.01.2005, 22:14

I finally downloaded the add-ons succesfully using a resurrected Internet Explorer. It seems that in my case the add-ons are not compatible with Safari.
Thanks to Joe and Frank (SORRY! Mr. Bolte and Mr.Gregoria) for their patience with a really old fogey.

Frank


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