CPHennessy 20:25 2005-10-09: >On Fri September 30 2005 13:19, + John G. Rink wrote: >> I keep attempting to download and open file. It appears I have no problem >> downloading but cannot open file. I get a message that the file is not a >> valid Zip file. I've downloaded from different sites, different versions, >> and always end up with the same problem. I'm using Windows XP, Internet >> Explorer, and SBC DSL. Can you help? > >Hi John, > It may be a good idea to check : >- the size of the downloaded file - it should be 50-100MBs depending on which >operating system you are using ; and >- the md5sum checksum tool as described on the download pages. > >This will verify that the file is not corrupt.
And IF you find it is corrupt, you might try another downloader, OR: even better, another method; the bittorrent transfer mechanism downloads and checks the file in many pieces, automatically redownloading erroneous ones. You start by installing a bittorrent client, then downloading the .torrent file for the download you want, and give that to the client (use to work just doublecklicking the downloaded file) More info: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/download.html For some reason the links to the torrents are not updated there at this moment i write this, but here: http://borft.student.utwente.nl:6969/ As an extra plus is torrent usually downloads fast and do not load OOo servers. /Morgan -- Morgan Olsson, Kivik, Sweden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
