[APBeta] Inability to download DSS images

[Paul Rodman]

On Dec 29, 2010, at 2:32 AM, Mingo Tardós wrote:

> I am one of these two users that have reported the problem. My computer has Windows XP SP3 in Spanish.
> Just in case this helps, in the very same computer, the behaviour is:
> - AP 2.0b98 image downloads give Decompression Error=1, except SDSS that work OK.
> - AP 1.6.1 successfully downloads images from all the sources
> 
> - AP 2.0b98 cannot download user contributed plans, but can upload and delete plans
> - AP 1.6.1 successfully downloads user contributed plans
> 
> Maybe both problems are related?
> 
> Something that changes is a non-english system is the name of the default directories. 
> In my case, the temporary folder has an accent in the path, can this be a problem?

Yes, this is the problem, at least with the image decompression. I can reproduce it on Windows XP. This appears to be a limitation with the decompression plugin I'm using. I have contacted the vendor to see if it can be fixed. Meantime there is probably a workaround I can use to avoid this problem.

Paul R.