alice-teacher Question about Strange Behavior -- Alice 2.2

[Don Slater]

Thanks Sam,
I have forwarded your report to the support team… Just to be clear, this happens for only a few students who are working on essentially the same machines as the other students?

Thanks,
Don

On Jun 28, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Sam Black wrote:

> Kathleen,
> 
> The folder icon is not one of the compressed folder icons (i.e., with a zipper down the middle).  Alice appears to have not followed through with the compression at all after the saving process.
> 
> Don,
> 
> We don't have access to WinZip, but we do have 7zip.  I just tried using it, changing the file type, and importing.  This time it acted like it was going to work but then it threw a FileNotFoundException saying it was missing elementData.xml.
> 
> And, we still don't get any reported errors during the "Save Object" process.
> 
> Hope this helps in tracking down the problem.
> 
> Sam
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Kathleen O'Brien <kathleen at laughton.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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