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Hi Les
Just lately when i try to open your drop-box links my Pc comes up with a Runtime Error , closes it opens it then sticks I can only get bout via ESCAPE.
What could be the cause???
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YRS THEA

Hiya Thea,

Yeh, it's a strange one that pal.
It seems that after 2 or 3 days, the dropbox address stops being available, I know it's happened before with Syzzie (I think)
Can't explain why it's happened, must be a dropbox glitch or some kind of time limit thing that they ain't told me about.

If you (or anyone else) wants to access any of the files for 'The Joint Effort' or 'The Triple Teaser'. just let me know, and I will send them straight to your email. That way you have them for good if you save them to your own documents.

Hope that helps mate.

Les40

Les, I've tried my Harper's links back to March. All OK, so not a time problem.

Tried all your links, including the Triple, back to the August JE grid. All worked except that one.
Also, your March solution gives a 404 (page not found) error as well.

First possible is that you've deleted, renamed, or moved the puzzle to a different folder at Dropbox.

Second oddity is the conversion of the title. Numbers following a percent sign are hex ASCII code.
e.g. %20 = space, %26 = &

The latter doesn't get translated.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57742443/August%20Joint%20Effort%202012%20Grid%20%26%20Clues.pdf
appears in the address box as;
dl.dropbox.com/u/57742443/August Joint Effort 2012 Grid %26 Clues.pdf

I tried typing it but no success.
Tested with the Chrome browser which doesn't convert the code. Same result, 404.

Beats me. You might try contacting Dropbox tech staff.

@theambler Next time download them right away. I was going to post it, but appears I've neglected to do that too. Bummer )-:

Les, can you send me a copy of the August puzzle? I have the rest.

Thanks.

http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/264375/the-august-joint-effort-crossword-2012

Here it is Syzzie,

Grid & Clues:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57742443/8-August%20Joint%20Effort/August%20Joint%20Effort%202012%20Grid%20%26%20Clues.pdf

Solution:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57742443/8-August%20Joint%20Effort/August%20Joint%20Effort%202012%20Solution.pdf

Wordplay File:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57742443/8-August%20Joint%20Effort/Clue%20Wordplay%20for%20August%20JE%202012.pdf

All the files remained in the same folder Syzzie, so not a problem with moving them about. Must just be a Dropbox Glitch mate

i know that downloading from Dropbox using Safari had some problems.
try using a different browser?

I'm using Firefox trevor and don't seem to get many problems with it usually, it's all sorted now though pal

Thanks Les. Have saved it in my archives.

Weird, that %26 (&) still doesn't translate.
Tried pasting the address into Wordpad, Notepad & a word-processor. It appears exactly as in post 4.
Chrome simply drops the http://

Here's a screen shot from the Firefox address bar:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/62858730/Dropbox%20JE%202012-08%20address.jpg

Perhaps avoid using an ampersand in your filenames.

I suspect there's something more subtle involved, but that would eliminate an obvious glitch.

Who's to blame, Dropbox, Firefox, ... ?
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