[nabs-l] Bookshare books not opening

Fri May 22 02:59:53 UTC 2009

Domonique and listers,

This is an old thread, and an anoying problem.

I am still having issues with Bookshare, and wonder if I am missing 
something.

I am not able to unarchive with Kurzweil, and when unzipping, I press the 
applications key when the cursor is on the file.

Then I press next, accept the folder, and enter my password.

Winzip then tells me there are no files to extract.

I've chosen the .brf file, and don't have any software from Bookshare 
installed.

There are 50000 books to enjoy and learn from, and I am not able to get at 
them.

Antonio Guimaraes

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trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of 
highway signs, they will eventually produce all the world's great literary 
works in Braille.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Domonique Lawless" <dlawless86 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Bookshare books not opening

> 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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