Help please!
The students created apps on the iPads. They exported them, and the iPad zips the files. They uploaded those zip files to canvas.
Now, to try and test their projects, I have downloaded the zip files. But there is no way to import them to test! Neither zipped nor unzipped, there is no .aia file to import.
Changing it to all files does not work either, as it requires the file to be a .aia.
Please help! There is some urgency on this as it is their final.
Can you try to upload one of their submissions here, or post a link to some place where we can try to download one?
Just change the file extension to aia (from zip) ?
If you are having them export more than one project, you will get a ZIP file containing AIA files. Can you check the contents of the ZIP file by extracting it?
If you are seeing this in a download dialog, then you are seeing an attempt by a file download service to download parts of an .aia file, which has the internal structure of a zip file.
Resist the urge to download parts of the .aia file.
^ That looks correct for the internals of an AIA file.
Upload a file to google drive and provide the link
The iPads automatically download it as a zip, even labeling it as an aia.zip
Yes so this confuses me. I can see why the iPad would rename the file to end in .zip, but once you download that .zip to a computer you should be able to rename it back. However, on Windows be careful because sometimes it hides the "real" extension so "foo.aia.zip" might just show up in Explorer as "foo.aia" even though it really ends in .zip. Renaming it when this setting is turned on won't actually change the extension.
Edit: One question is, if they're in Google Drive, can you see the .zip extension in Google Drive and remove it?
Changing the file type on Google drive may have just worked! I am going to try it with more projects to confirm.
You think it is a setting in windows that is stopping the change of the type?
You are a hero - all of you are.
Thank you very much. Even though it is a workaround, if it continues to work, it will enable me to at least grade my finals.
Thanks again!!!!
