We would like to move a bunch of Published output folders that were published for the web into our LMS. We don't need SCORM on these. Rather than using Storyline 2 to publish them again and zipping the folders, we would like to just zip the folders of the already published output folders and load those into the LMS (SABA). If we go the republish then zip using SL2 everything works great. If we use 7zip or Winzip, it doesn't work at all. What is different about the zip feature in SL2 and is there a zip program that will work?
I bet on both of them you have the defaults set to the their proprietary zip methods (which make everything smaller still) - both of those allow you to use a compatible mode - which I am sure will solve your problem. (or even in windows just select all files and right click and choose send to compressed.
PKWare invented ZIP and maintain the standard, so should be as standards compliant as anyone can get. They have a free evaluation period and if it works it's $29. https://pkware.com/pkzip
Paul, the "send to compressed folder" tip did the trick ... compression isn't quite as good as with 7zip or winzip but a) not that significant and b) after uploading the new zip file to the LMS it works!
Great! - yeah both have some great proprietary standards that make things quite small, but they don't work outside their applications, but both have a compatible mode that uses the universal standard (which is what the built in windows uses).
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I bet on both of them you have the defaults set to the their proprietary zip methods (which make everything smaller still) - both of those allow you to use a compatible mode - which I am sure will solve your problem. (or even in windows just select all files and right click and choose send to compressed.
PKWare invented ZIP and maintain the standard, so should be as standards compliant as anyone can get. They have a free evaluation period and if it works it's $29. https://pkware.com/pkzip
Gnu zip for Windows is completely free and might work. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zip.htm
Paul, the "send to compressed folder" tip did the trick ... compression isn't quite as good as with 7zip or winzip but a) not that significant and b) after uploading the new zip file to the LMS it works!
Thank you ...
Great! - yeah both have some great proprietary standards that make things quite small, but they don't work outside their applications, but both have a compatible mode that uses the universal standard (which is what the built in windows uses).
Thanks all for the input. I work with Roger and we are really happy. :-)
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I'm curious. What is the advantage of zipping it yourself?
Hi. I removed my post since I solved it. That said, it is so that I can change the code before zipping it.
Got it Thanks
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