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    Can someone do me a favour?

    We've got some job vacancies uploaded to our website, and I'm having calls about "people can't download them" and "they're corrupt".

    Madeley Academy Sports College

    Is the address, and there are 3 zips on there. From my end, they seem fine. On the server, they seem fine too. Extracted, they're fine...yet people are having issues. Since all of our traffic runs through a netcache, I can't guarantee I'm not seeing cached copies..can anyone out there try to download/extract them and see if they have issues?

    Many thanks...

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    Seem ok to me. I didn't save them, just opened them. All files within the zip opened fine.

    EDIT: Tell a lie. In the Competition Manager zip there seems to be 2 copies of the person spec. If you open one as well as the other it will fail to open. Could be this they are getting confused about?
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    They all work here in WinZip

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    I've opened everything successfully here:

    We're on XP SP2, Office 2003 and Acrobat Reader 7.0

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    All fine here - no problems downloading, unzipping or opening.

    Using Vista SP1, Firefox, winzip, Foxit and Office 2007. Behind EMBC firewall.

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    All downloaded, uncompressed and opened fine for me.

    XP SP2, Firefox and IE, Office 2003, Acrobat Reader 8

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    Downloaded all 3 and opened them all, no problems to report!

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    All fine this end. Downloaded via IE7 on XP SP3 Extraxted using XP

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    Ok here too..

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    The English Teacher one worked fine for me (downloaded, extracted, opened Word doc and 1 pdf), didn't try the others.

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    All fine here too, using XP SP2, Adobe Reader 8.1.2 and Word 2003 SP3.

    As well as the Adobe Plugin I would recommend you place a link to Word Viewer 2003. It does help a lot of people.

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    Thankyou everybody, that's excellent.. Looks like a problem with the end user then..typical eh?

    As to the viewer...good point, I'll implement it.. Thankyou all!

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    Nice bit of applicant filtering methinks!

    If they can't open it, you really don't want to have to support them at school!

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    Our grid filter classifies your site as gambling, that'd certainly cause a problem for applicants!

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    All seems fine here.

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