Uploading swf's and .anme's

Blade_Rain · Post by **Blade_Rain** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:08 am

I'm trying to upload a few of these for review but don't know how. Help please.

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:25 am

I need to upload it to a file sharing site (I use Mediafire.com). These kinds of sites will give you a URL to copy. When posting, hit the URL button, paste the URL you copied, and hit the URL button again to enclose it. This makes it a clickable link.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:46 am

Blade_Rain

Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Posts: 16777215

what?

Blade_Rain · Post by **Blade_Rain** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:03 pm

selgin wrote:
Blade_Rain

Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Posts: 16777215
what?

lol, a forum bug i assume. 3 posts and i have over 16 million posts!
I said the same thing in another topic

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:01 am

If the site doesn't allow either .swf or .anme, put them in a .zip archive. If your project uses several files (e.g. texture fills or layer scripts), put those in a .zip archive as well. There are other archival file formats (.rar comes to mind), but .zip seems to be the most universal.

If you're on a Mac, use YemuZip to create zip archives that are PC compatible (so, without the Mac OS resource fork and without the .DS_Store files).

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:32 am

Uhm, a decent PC just ignores those files. I never had problems with .zip files created by the Mac OS utility and transferred to PC.

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:51 pm

Well, I don't own a PC (so I can't check my claims), but the times I created a ZIP archive with the built-in ZIP archiver, I got strange extra folders and .DS_Store files on a friends PC, running Windows XP. YemuZip claims to get rid of those distracting files, you don't want to see on a PC.

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:17 pm

I use linux and all the times I download a zip file from a mac user it unzips into two folders: one labaled like MAC_OS_Files (or similar) and other with the current folder name.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:15 pm

Rasheed wrote:Well, I don't own a PC (so I can't check my claims), but the times I created a ZIP archive with the built-in ZIP archiver, I got strange extra folders and .DS_Store files on a friends PC, running Windows XP. YemuZip claims to get rid of those distracting files, you don't want to see on a PC.

Those stupid files have been a pain for cross platform work for ages. There is a network utility for OSX that will eliminate them on a shared network... it should be part of the OS and not a paid utility though. I tried the demo but couldn't get it to work on my network. It is suppose to remove the files as they are copied over a network so it doesn't help much with zipping.

Those files are an annoyance more than a danger. They do take up a teeny amount of space though and are invisible to most users.. but still it drives me nuts.

What I do on the mac is zip stuff then I open the zip and remove those extra useless bits.

-vern

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:55 pm

Don't blame the Mac just for using a different file system - every OS does that. Those tiny files don't harm anyone. Since FTP clients for decades knew not to copy them to a server, you could as well blame Windows or Linux for not knowing how to just keep them invisible in file listings.

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:27 pm

My point was not to use the built-in ZIP utility, but rather something like YemuZip, to avoid these discussions and annoyances. It's an easy to use utility. You just drop the folder onto YemuZip and it does the compression for you. No big deal, but a big difference for non-Mac users.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:21 am

I have always used a third party zip utility on the mac and never had problems... but right clicking and "create archive" was so cool in OSX I started to like it... until I noticed the extra bits in the zip file.

If MacZip doesn't have this problem why does the OS?

-vern

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:21 am

heyvern wrote:If MacZip doesn't have this problem why does the OS?

Because Apple likes it that way. When Apple develops products they do so, because they need it for themselves, not because it is useful for their customers. And if Steve doesn't like it, it doesn't happen. You don't argue with Steve.

Of course, no-one in Apple will acknowledge this, because that would get them fired.

Recently someone phoned Apple support and asked how to get rid of the repeated update request for Safari, which wasn't even installed on that person's computer. He got the reply that Safari was the best browser in existence and that he:

either install the software
or disable the updater

It hadn't occurred to Apple that some people don't like Apple to install software on their Windows computer in a sneaky way. Because Apple, in their minds, is the greatest company in the world.

Tibetans might beg to differ (most Apple products are made in China).

Sorry for the rant. I like Apple products, but I don't like Apple, the company, nor its creepy CEO.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:50 am

Sorry for the rant. I like Apple products, but I don't like Apple, the company, nor its creepy CEO.

I am starting to feel that way myself. I don't like how Apple stores are managed either... I applied there and they told me, to my face, after a group interview with 12 other people at the same time... that all the employees hated me, no one would want to work with me... I talked too much... and I hated Apple (I said I wasn't interested in Apple stock options because I don't invest in the stock market. They took that to mean I hated Apple... literally those were the words. I hated Apple because I wasn't interested in the stock options).

I couldn't sleep for days... I felt so depressed after hearing that, that I began to think that people who like me were just pretending. I like Apple products but I hate Apple people.

I will always use Apple computers and products.. but I am no longer a "fan boy".

-vern

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:31 am

Oh, that's a very sad story, Vern.

Seriously, I could just picture a starry eyed young Vern being torn to ribbons by Santa himself. It's a damn Greek tragedy!