Pinyin Chart zip file corrupt

elainegu
May 13, 2008, 04:26 AM posted in General Discussion

Hi, I'm trying out the site and have tried to download the zip file:

http://chinesepod.com/download/pinyinchart_win.zip

 but it seems to be corrupt.  Is anyone else having this problem and can it be fixed?

 

thanks

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joannah
May 13, 2008, 09:47 AM

i tried that a few months ago and it was corrupt then. I emailed them at the time to let them know but i'm not sure if anything happened about it

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light487
May 13, 2008, 09:56 AM

ditto to joannah's comment.

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lilywhytelegs
May 15, 2008, 12:55 AM

same here.

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amber
May 15, 2008, 01:36 AM

hi guys, I'm on it, thanks for letting us know! It seems we have been aware of this problem and the programmers are working to de-bug it. We will try to have it fixed asap! Sorry for the inconvenience!

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lilywhytelegs
May 15, 2008, 03:12 AM

Thanks for the update, Amber.

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elainegu
May 15, 2008, 05:09 AM

yes, thank you

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elainegu
May 16, 2008, 11:55 PM

Any luck on this or am I being too impatient? It should just be a re-zip.

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AuntySue
May 17, 2008, 01:51 AM

No, it doesn't look that easy. I downloaded the Mac version, which is also corrupted, but with unix tools I got a look inside the archive, comparing the archive's header file listing with a crc-check. There are 1662 files in there, of various kinds, and they are all integrated into what we would see and use as a single pinyin chart application. There is a batch of currupted little mp3 files in the middle of the file list, and a whole swag of them at the end, which by their filenames are those that seem to be the main door into the application. All of those files would have to be found as clean copies from ages ago, maybe updated, tested, and the whole thing reassembled and rebuilt into an archive that auto-extracts the files into their right sub-folders. Maybe the difficulty level lies between those two extremes, but we don't know, so we can only have faith and wait.

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elainegu
May 17, 2008, 02:44 AM

Well, I have an older version, a little over 7 meg file, which works but some of the sounds are not in the right place or are not correct. If someone would like it I could send it to you or post it somewhere easily downloadable.

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elainegu
May 17, 2008, 02:45 AM

The version I have is a Flash Driven/Compiled file (btw)