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lostgerry
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 Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:28 am Post subject: winzip cannot open this file ???? |
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Hi can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong I have widows xp with winzip and when I download the poi thingy for my tom tom (France supermarkets) it says it cant open it and its not valid download again done this about 10 times and rebooted tried a few time and same thing ?
sorry if I am missing something obvious ??
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M8TJT
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| Have you tried to d/l a different set of POIs to see if that file is also 'dodgy'. It might be worth a try. |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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after you select 'France' are you clicking on the 'Refresh POI List'?
are you combining the subcategories into a single file?
have you tried the 'show link' option?
what format file are you requesting?
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Anita
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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Have you tried the suggestion shown under the Download button?
| Quote: | | [use 'show link' if you have problems opening the file once downloaded or it appears to be empty] |
Edit: Oops. Beaten to it by MaFt!
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Kremmen
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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If it's a normal Zip file then right click it in XP and select 'Extract'.
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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As Kremmen says... no need to use WinZip. Just using the built-in Windows extractor should work, so that removes one variable while we try to work out what's going wrong.
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lostgerry
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| Still no joy will try and get them somewhere else its only the french supermarkets I Wanted thanks anyway |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| lostgerry wrote: | | Still no joy will try and get them somewhere else its only the french supermarkets I Wanted thanks anyway |
I'm intrigued now... can you email me the zip file you downloaded to MaFt AT pocketgpsworld DOT com ?
I want to see if there's an issue with the zip file or if it's a winzip issue.
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JoeGriffin
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: winzip cannot open this file ???? |
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| lostgerry wrote: | Hi can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong I have widows xp with winzip and when I download the poi thingy for my tom tom (France supermarkets) it says it cant open it and its not valid download again done this about 10 times and rebooted tried a few time and same thing ?
sorry if I am missing something obvious ??
thanks for reading |
I found a similar thing. Instead, I checked the "Show link" box. That means you end up with a link to the ZIP file. Click that and it downloads. I've found that I get the file correctly each time I do that. If I don't check the "Show Link", it automatically downloads, but I get an un-openable file.
Hope that helps.
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lostgerry
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: winzip cannot open this file ???? |
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| JoeGriffin wrote: | | lostgerry wrote: | Hi can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong I have widows xp with winzip and when I download the poi thingy for my tom tom (France supermarkets) it says it cant open it and its not valid download again done this about 10 times and rebooted tried a few time and same thing ?
sorry if I am missing something obvious ??
thanks for reading |
I found a similar thing. Instead, I checked the "Show link" box. That means you end up with a link to the ZIP file. Click that and it downloads. I've found that I get the file correctly each time I do that. If I don't check the "Show Link", it automatically downloads, but I get an un-openable file.
Hope that helps. |
Joe your right did what you said and yippeee thank you very much |
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Daggers
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Isn't that one of the ideas that MaFt suggested in his first answer? ... and also what Anita suggested?
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M8TJT
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| Daggers wrote: | | Isn't that one of the ideas that MaFt suggested in his first answer? ... and also what Anita suggested? |
Yes, but that was a week ago for goodness sake  |
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lostgerry
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | Daggers wrote: | | Isn't that one of the ideas that MaFt suggested in his first answer? ... and also what Anita suggested? |
Yes, but that was a week ago for goodness sake |
oiy I will have you know I have had a buss pass for the last 6 years sometimes I dont get it the first time
dont worry it will come to you and the next step is smellin of stale pee !! oh deep joy |
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M8TJT
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Don't come the Oi with me . I already smell of stale pee and have had a bus pass for longer than you and nearly as long as DennisN 
And I did put a couple of smileys after my comment |
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lostgerry
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| M8TJT wrote: | Don't come the Oi with me . I already smell of stale pee and have had a bus pass for longer than you and nearly as long as DennisN
And I did put a couple of smileys after my comment |
if your youryour trying to make me feel worse its working dad  |
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