[ale] [OT] gmail attachment - "download all" bug

[Greg Freemyer]

All,

I just got an email with 4 attached word docs.  Normal enough.

gmail allows me to "download all" which causes a zip file to be downloaded.

I then unzip it.  Easy.

Except, at least 2 of the docs are then identified by Office as corrupt.

I repeat the process but just download the files one at a time.  All is good.

Apparently gmail / zip / unzip process is not perfect.

fyi: I did this originally in Linux, but re-did it on a Windows 2008
server with winzip and MS-office as the test tools.  Same behavior.

Greg
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