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Hello everyone ,

this is one of the oldest problems I keep running into for ages:

When I download a zipped file from the internet to my computer as I've just been doing (a book called "How to become a Unix guru", get the irony?) I FIND all theses zillions of objects in the folder that I created for this download.

What do I do wrong?




Is this an eBook ? ?
What format are these zillion files in ? ?
yes, its an e-book.
The objects, 140 of them, are all in html format.Not to worry then...no, it's nothing to worry about really, but this problem has been sort of following me around for quite some time whether I used windows or Ubuntu.

And it seems a very awkward way to read a book.Blame the Authors...each file is a page of text.Quote from: sandra on December 28, 2011, 11:43:26 AM

no, it's nothing to worry about really, but this problem has been sort of following me around for quite some time whether I used windows or Ubuntu.

And it seems a very awkward way to read a book.

Extract it to it's own folder, and open the first page. no doubt each page links to the previous and next one.

Heck if you're crazy, you might even do something totally insane like use the table of contents for it's intended purpose, since chances are each of the chapter and section headings will link to the appropriate pages.@ BC:

When I do as you suggest (open index and hit a chapter) I'm getting a "file not found" error.

It is no big deal. I can read them books on the web site, no need to download them in the first place.
It's just that I'd like to know if I'm doing anything wrong...







Quote from: sandra on December 28, 2011, 01:13:44 PM
@ BC:

When I do as you suggest (open index and hit a chapter) I'm getting a "file not found" error.

It is no big deal. I can read them books on the web site, no need to download them in the first place.
It's just that I'd like to know if I'm doing anything wrong...

What file is it trying to open? What does it say in the address bar?

We thrive on details.This is what the browser line says when I get the error:

file:///home/micha/.cache/.fr-Ip8vAW/node19.html

[year+ old attachment deleted by admin]looks like you are accessing the files inside the zip using the built in shell of your OS; that is, windows, and many other systems, will pretend that a zip file is a folder, and allow you to open files within that 'folder'. But what really HAPPENS is when you open a file, it extracts it to a temporary location and opens that file. Of course in this case, it only extracts the contents file, and not any of the files that links to.

You need to extract the zip to it's own folder.Thanks, and I mean it. However, this explanation leaves me exactly where I started .Quote from: sandra on December 29, 2011, 05:49:21 AM
Thanks, and I mean it. However, this explanation leaves me exactly where I started .

Are you or are you not actually CREATING and extracting the zip to a new folder? The PATH shown is a temporary folder...I right-click the desktop and create a new folder (1).
Then, I download (right-click, save as) the ebook into that folder.

When I open that folder I find a packet thing with a ".zip" ending. I right-click it and hit "extract here" and a new folder (2) is created within the folder that I created at the start (1). When I open folder (2) I find all these objects.



Just as an aside:

I think whats playing into this here is Basic Dummyhood on my part, i. e. a LACK of feeling for folders...



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