SW2008-And now for something completely different-Empty RX

I did an RX today. I then did a PackNGo on the troublesome assembly. I
opened the zip file created by PNG and saw nothing there. However, the
file was 50Mb so I knew something was there. Then I got some crazy
message saying that MSoft was protecting me from possibly dangerous
files and to go into properties and check a button that wasn't there.
I sent the RX file to the VAR as an attachment and there was nothing
in it either. Has anybody seen anything like this before?

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As a follow up I sent the same RX file to myself that I sent the VAR
and that RX file had all files present and accounted for. I think the
VAR was unaware that SW has two modes of capturing animation. One
creates an AVI and the other creates a folder full of jpegs. I chose
the jpeg method because it triggers on events and so a lot of empty
recoding time is saved and you can zero in on the event that caused
the problem.

I spoke to an IT pro about the zip file with invisible files and he
said he had sometimes seen that in XP. Why Pack N Go would create such
a thing is beyond me.

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Two points:

1) The bug is with Windows. If you use Winzip or rar to unzip the file
all the files are there. (The issue is with certain type of path names in
windows)

2) Find a better VAR.

 

Thanks Steve.

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