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My students who use PCs cannot download the documents Ive placed in my site. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017documents download pc Placed site students wrong

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My students who use PCs cannot download the documents Ive placed in my site. Whats wrong?

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You need to use PC-style file-type extensions (e.g., “.doc” for Word documents) in your file names. For a Mac user, this can take some getting used to. The Mac OS file system does not automatically add an extension to files when they are saved. This is fine so long as you are transferring files from Mac to Mac, but it causes some problems when uploading these files to the web or to computers with other operating systems. Students will not be able to download files correctly because their computer or their browser will be unable to determine the file type.