Anyone know what is up with Blendswap, when downloading anything you get a HTML file and not a ZIP?
Several others experienced this as well - see the post on BlenderNation:
What a pity!
Very sad that!
Is Blendswap dead now? All files download as .zip.html and I cannot access any of them.
Can anyone out there download a .zip file from Blendswap?
I can download as zip my own files, all the others as .zip.html
Once I download the .zip.html files I cannot use them, even if I rename it to .zip, which is suggested online.
Can anyone use the .zip.html files?
Could it be that in your file explorer under view (menubar) , the checkbox âFile name extensionsâ is not checked?. If you rename files to .zip, it will still be .zip.html in that case.
thanks for the suggestion, but the âfile name extensionsâ box is checked.
I do not understand what causes this to happenâŚ
I tried to download one. Usual workaround: Click download on Blendswap > Save As (Html) > Once downloaded, rename .zip.html into .zip > Extract.
But this time I got an error at the last step : Windows cannot open the folder > invalid.
with another unpacker (7zip), same issue.
Was that the problem?
yes. exactly
I tried to download a 3D model and got some file like
XYZ.zip.HTLM but unable to get the model
does it means that blendswap is dead now ?
thanks
happy bl
I remove the extenion .HTML and nothing
Win 10 cannot read the file !
sorry donât use Blendswap that often
or how do I change the name then ?
thanks
happy bl
Open the file with an hex editor and delete all before the pk tag save as zip and unzip
No need for a hex editor if you are in Windows⌠click on the download link and in the Save dialog change the âSave as Typeâ to âAll Filesâ. Then remove the .html from the filename and click the save button.
We had a similar discussion over on the CG Cookie community forum and someone offered this as a solution. (It works well for me.)
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change the .html to .rar,
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open it in 7z.
At this point, Iâm no longer sure what the file type actually is, but treating it as a .rar allows me to extract everything from the file.
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That seems to work indeed. Thanks.
Yes this did indeed work for me. Thank you so much everyone on this thread.
Nope. Neither removing header with an hex editor nor renaming gave any effectâŚ
It breaks on unzippingâŚ
I just inspected a downloaded file and it contains a bunch of ASCII errors before the actual ZIP content starts, thatâs why the unzipping breaks. The only way to bypass this would be to somehow strip out this information.
The actual ZIP information starts at the âPKâ string in the 6th line from the bottom:
