alice-teacher Question about Strange Behavior -- Alice 2.2

[Kathleen O'Brien]

Windows does not really expand compressed files. It just looks like it does
because it displays the compressed file like a folder. To really uncompress
the file, you have to drag or copy the folder to another location.

I do not know if that has anything to do with your problem, but I thought I
would pass it on.

Kathleen

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Yes, you might try that, particularly if you use WinZip, not the built in
> Windows compressor… Speaking of that. Does Windows 7 have a setting in
> which it automatically expands compressed files, and these machines have
> that turned on, and others do not. I am trying to figure out why it is
> happening to some and not to others…
>
> Keep us posted,
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Sam Black wrote:
>
> > Don,
> >
> > We are using Windows 7 Professional.  They did have the A2C option
> selected when they were saving it.  It goes through the process of telling
> us that it's writing it all out but when we go and look for it, all we see
> is a folder (not a compressed folder) with all the info inside.
> >
> > Would it be useful to possibly zip it back up and change the file type
> back to A2C manually?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sam Black
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> > Sam,
> > An Alice .a2c file is a compressed file, and it sounds like the
> operating system of these students recognize this, and is uncompressing
> these files for the students automatically… What is the OS of these
> students? When they are saving the object, have they selected the Files of
> Type: option as "A2C (Alice Object Files)", and not "All Files"?
> >
> > Later,
> > Don Slater
> >
> >
> >
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