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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Preparation

JQuery Basics - Spoiler - Can't extract files. Windows 8.1

Great little tutorial Andrew Chalkley, but...the working files .zip file is empty for me.

http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/jQueryBasics/spoiler_complete.zip

3 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

try using 7zip or winrar or something other than whatever the default windows archiver program is. Im on a mac and its extracting fine

Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Tagging Jim Hoskins / Jay McGavren – have you heard about the zip archives generated by Workspaces causing issues on Windows 8.1?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Might be related to this bug I reported last month regarding project files on the How to Make a Website project here:

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/img-folder-wont-load-into-workspace

As I'm on Windows 7 using the compressed folder feature built into Windows Explorer, it shows no files. However in 7-zip on the same system inside the same zip folder it see's a folder with no name inside of which their are the files.

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

I just downloaded the file, extracted it, and its got quite a bit in there. an image or two, some css, some of other stuff. Have you tried downloading it again?

Hmm, I've tried 10 times or more, now I'm wondering what's wrong with my machine... I see the zipped file size as 10kb.

Windows cannot complete the extraction.

The compressed (zipped) Folder 'C:\spoiler_complete.zip' is invalid.