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General Discussion Introducing the Practice

Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel
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Posted by Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel
6,379 Points

Where are the project files? - it's empty

I downloaded the project files, but I couldn't find any files in it. It's just the folder without any content.

3 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Thomas,

When I download the project files and unzip them, I get the three files needed for the practice. Maybe it was just a 'glitch' when you did it?

Hope it works for you now. :) :dizzy:

Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel
6,379 Points
Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel
6,379 Points

Hi Jason,

thanks for your answer, but even your linked files are empty. When I download the folder it says that the size is 2.8 kB which seems like nothing actually. It's the same in the practise page.

Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel
6,379 Points
Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel
6,379 Points

When I unzip this empty folder it says that the folder is even invalid....

Rob Allessi
Rob Allessi
8,600 Points
Rob Allessi
Rob Allessi
8,600 Points

Thomas Rudel

Which extraction tool are you using? If you're on Windows, would you please try 7-zip and see if that resolves the issue?

Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel
6,379 Points
Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel
6,379 Points

haha okay this is funny...

first of all I copied the code out of the workspace for this callenge, so this solved it in another way. BUT: now I downloaded 7-zip, because I used the default windows 10 unzipper before. With 7-zip I can find another folder inside the Zip that leads to the project files. This does not make sense to me but it will help if this problem will ever occur again :) This never happened to any other project files...

Thanks guys!

Rob Allessi
Rob Allessi
8,600 Points
Rob Allessi
Rob Allessi
8,600 Points

Thomas Rudel

As a Windows user myself, it baffles me how lousy their extraction tool can be at times. I'll file a bug report and see if we can figure out if there's anything we can do on our end with our zip files to avoid this in the future.