[nabs-l] Bookshare books not opening

[Domonique Lawless]

Hi Antonio,
This used to happen to me all the time. The bookshare people don't
really know what it is but kept telling me to uninstall and reinstall
the unpack tool. I recommend doing that first. Also, I download books
now by pressing open instead of save on the dialog box and then
copying the 4 required files on the file screen that opens. I then
paste it into my books folder and only have to enter my bookshare
password once as opposed to the 6 or so times Kurzweil wants you to
when unpacking through their program.I hope this helps!

Best Wishes,
Domonique

On 3/14/09, T. Joseph Carter <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just realized that Bookshare erroneously tells you to download and
> use The Unarchiver with their books.  Totally unnecessary--but it's a
> useful tool, so I'll explain how to set it up.
>
> The way you use The Unarchiver is to drop it in your Applications
> directory and run it.  This will bring up its preferences dialog box,
> allowing you to decide what to use it on.
>
> In the Archive Formats tab, find the Select All button and press it.
> There's a list of archive formats above that, and I suggest
> deselecting everything between Gzip File and UNIX Compress Tar
> Archive.  The Mac can handle those itself, and there's a small bug in
> The Unarchiver.
>
> Close that, then just open the archives you want to decompress.
> They'll appear in a folder of the same name as the zip file, right
> next to it.  (You need not install The Unarchiver to do this with a
> zip file, though.)
>
> Joseph
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:26:06PM -0700, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
>> They're zip files now.  You no longer need the archive utility from
>> bookshare--BOMArchiveHelper (built-in Mac utility that runs when you
>> double-click a zip file) or The Unarchiver (a free replacement for
>> BOMArchiveHelper that handles a lot more archive formats--I suggest not
>> using it for .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 files due to a bug) should open
>> bookshare books directly now.
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 07:07:12PM -0600, Maurice Mines wrote:
>>> Also does anyone who has a Mac know how to unzip books with the archive
>>> utility from bookshare?
>>>
>>> On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Antonio Guimaraes wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Here is a bookshare question I can use some help for.
>>>>
>>>> I use BookShare in conjunction with Kurzweil. I am downloading books
>>>> that I can not open. The book title appears as a subfolder in the
>>>> downloads folder
>>>> in Kurzweil. I can not access the folder in Windows explorer. I get a
>>>> message saying "the compressed zip folder is invalid, or corrupted."
>>>> I get similar
>>>> results with Kurzweil.
>>>>
>>>> One title where this happens is 101 Ways to Answer the Toughest
>>>> Interview Questions. I would appreciate any assistance you can direct
>>>> to the list.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.
>>>>
>>>> Customer Service Representative
>>>> National Braille Press
>>>> 1800 548-read, ext 40.
>>>> aguimaraes at nbp.org
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