November 2013 Free Giveaway - Snowflake Maker Template

**Rik** · 26 November 2013, 07:37 PM

Here are two from me, to add to the collection.

**angelize** · 27 November 2013, 05:40 AM

Very nice Rik I like those.

**germaine** · 28 November 2013, 09:10 AM

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thank you all
will give it a try
I just want to say when downloading xar files or zip files in explorer 11 I get error (xar gives php extension , zip files are all named attachment zip
in chrome it works well

**Rik** · 28 November 2013, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by germaine

thank you all
will give it a try
I just want to say when downloading xar files or zip files in explorer 11 I get error (xar gives php extension , zip files are all named attachment zip
in chrome it works well

Yup. I get the same. Dead annoying.

But, what I discovered was that you can change the file name and type to what it should be and everything gets saved as it should be.

**Gare** · 28 November 2013, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Rik

Yup. I get the same. Dead annoying.

But, what I discovered was that you can change the file name and type to what it should be and everything gets saved as it should be.

I don't regularly use Internet Explorer, but Rik, your advice is absolutely bang-on, and I propose this is a browser problem and not the way the download page is coded. If IE thinks that you want to download "php", then it needs some serious debugging.

Question: has this ever happened before with Xara Xone downloads? There's a 0.0045% change we screwed up.

-g

**Rik** · 28 November 2013, 10:03 PM

Hi Gary.

It's not to do with the Xone, for me.

It's when I try and click on a .xar file on TG.

You will see by the attached pic that I clicked on the .xar file and IE11 wants to open it as 'attachment.php'

**Gare** · 28 November 2013, 10:15 PM

Well, Rik, you have a Save drop-down and I imagine it has "Save As", but this really shouldn't be happening.

Perhaps the browser doesn't understand XAR as a valid mime type and is defaulting to the page's suffix. "php" is Personal Home Page, the module running this thread, not really a file ie11 should think it should download. Not really sure, sorry!

-g

**Gare** · 28 November 2013, 09:51 PM

Hi Germaine—

Our Administrator, Barbara Bouton, is responsible for the links on Xara Xone, not Frances.

But I cannot repeat your error in IE 11; I just tried it.

You don't want to choose Open, but instead choose Save As when given these options.

We try to test against multiple browsers when we code the pages, so we are happy that at least Google Chrome works for your configuration.

My Best,

Gary