Some books are not downloading correctly. Variation of a theme book 2 by grey wolf is one of them. I have tried to download it both as .mobi, and .epub. All I get is it being called a .file that I cannot read even if I change the file extension, or try to open it up with something like office. This issue has also appeared on Made to do, all done by Yob.
Variation of a theme book 2 by grey wolf is one of them. I have tried to download it both as .mobi, and .epub.
Just tried it as an ePub download. It downloads and opens perfectly in iBooks.
Also, my mother did not even like goats..!!
I've see the .file extension used by browsers for the partially-downloaded file, and if you try to open this, then you'll find it's broken. Worse still, under MSWin just the act of opening this partial file is likely to break the download - this may be the driver for the automatic redirection to a separate download manager under MSW10 recently discussed in another thread, or it may be another manifestation of that (that's another advantage to Linux - it automatically copies as required to prevent this sort of problem). Check that the browser has completed the download before trying to open it.
I've see the .file extension used by browsers for the partially-downloaded file,
I've not seen anything like that on any version of Windows.
All I get is it being called a .file that I cannot read even if I change the file extension
If you are on an OS X system: https://www.file-extensions.org/file-file-extension-macos-os-x-data. I know little to nothing about Apple or Windows systems but it probably means the file is only partially downloaded. The extension would change when it's complete. Other systems often use the same process with different temporary extensions (.tmp, .part, etc.) until the download completes. It's sometimes used to enable a retry download from the point where it was broken.
Just try to download it again and see if what you get is always the same size. If the sizes differ it's definitely interrupted downloads.
(By-the-way, if I download the same epub it's perfectly fine.)
Try rebooting your computer. This is not something caused by the site. Partial/incomplete downloads can be a networking issue.
a .file that I cannot read even if I change the file extension,
The file you are downloading received its file extension because of the format used to prepare the file. Changing a file format will always result in your computer trying to open the file using a format other than the one used to generte the file, and the result will always be garbage.
The file you are downloading received its file extension because of the format used to prepare the file.
None of the download formats available on SOL should yield a .file extension. There has to be something else going on.
After re-booting my laptop. I can download both those stories if I am using my firefox browser, but not chrome. It's really weird.