Problem with new Files Section

lucindrea · Post by **lucindrea** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:44 am

i clicked download here at work and it opened right up in notepad , looks fine to me

Post by **The Robman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:57 am

lucindrea wrote:their is also the chance that the line feeds got striped during the ftp trasnfer if they were sent txt and not binary , agin i would need to ask rob how he is sending them .. or if he is useing the on site script to send the files , then the php script may be striping the cr/lf also .. all the more reasion to zip em up.

I'm using some homemade HTML that is cloned from the regular upload page, so nothing unusual there. And actually, the TV file that Mark is asking about was loaded up using the actual upload page, that one wasn't done using my homemade HTML.

You may be onto something with the binary thing because there are alot of files in the Yahoo file section that when downloaded and opened using Notepad show black boxes where all the line breaks are supposed to be (you can fix this by cut & pasting the data into Wordpad, then cut & pasting it back to Notepad), while most of the other text files download OK.

Even the ones where the line breaks show up as block boxes open OK in the IE browser.

Mark Pierson · Post by **Mark Pierson** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:05 am

lucindrea wrote:their is also the chance that the line feeds got striped during the ftp trasnfer if they were sent txt and not binary , agin i would need to ask rob how he is sending them .. or if he is useing the on site script to send the files , then the php script may be striping the cr/lf also .. all the more reasion to zip em up.

I doubt that's it since I can right-click, Save As..., and the files are fine (i.e. they have the proper line breaks).

quote]i'll look into the mime type , but rember the upload/download section is made for files , not text.[/quote]
The more I look into this, the more it looks like an IE problem on my end. My problem system is XP SP2 with IE 6 SP2. On an XP/IE system without SP2, I get the "open/save" dialog, etc. So my system is clearly doing something differently.

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:42 pm

I found a solution to the missing "Save Target As" problem in IE here. By turning Content Advisor off in IE, I can R-click the Download button and save text files. I'd rather keep content advisor on, so if anyone finds a better solution, please post it.

lucindrea · Post by **lucindrea** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:17 pm

hehe thats like my brother getting ticked off because i e-mailed him a 500k exe file ( it was a flash video ) and outlook refused to open it , then i ziped it , and outlook refused to open it ...
gota love how M$ protects it's end users by compleatly taking away control of their systems.

download mozilla's firefox , just use that to get the files.

mz739x · Post by **mz739x** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:47 am

I'm having the same probelm with the downloads. I've test selected over 40 files and only 2 have given me the download dialog box asked whether to SAVE, OPEN or CANCEL. The only work-around I've been able to sucessfully use, in the above mentions, is to right-click on the DOWNLOAD button and select SAVE TARGET AS. Then the file can be opened as text in NotePad.

Post by **The Robman** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 10:07 am

Frisco,
What operating system are you using?

mz739x · Post by **mz739x** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 6:52 am

I'm running Windows XP.

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:02 pm

lucindrea wrote:i'll look into the mime type , but rember the upload/download section is made for files , not text.

All IR saved files, KM device upgrades, and RM device upgrades are text files, although some of them have special extensions (.ir and .rmdu).

Has there been any progress on the mime types? I'm having all sorts of problems downloading files with Firefox. Everything comes through as text, and the file name gets lost in the process. Even .zip files. They seem to download correctly, 'cause when I rename them I can then unzip with no problems.