You can use this to dictate the order in which the files appear for example, if you wanted ‘groups.csv’ to be at the top of the list you might add 01 to the start of its file name.
Tip : Files within a folder are displayed in numerical and alphabetical order. In this instance it is ‘Folder of files’. Please note that the name of the folder is displayed above the files.
#HOW DO YOU CREATE A ZIP FOLDER SERIES#
The contents of your folder are displayed as a series of links. To view your files click on the folder link – in this example ‘Folder of files’. The image below illustrates how your folder might appear on your course page. Click on the zip folder which you have uploaded, then ‘unzip’.Click on the the folder which you have created, in the topic you have selected.To access the individual files you will now need to unzip the folder. Your files are currently zipped which, though convenient for uploading to QMplus, stops your students from accessing the content of the folder. Having selected your zipped folder, click Open. Click on Choose File and navigate to your resource.When clicking on the Add icon, the ‘File picker’ opens.Drag your folder directly to the page using the ‘drag and drop’ option or Click on ADD.You might also want to give the folder a description, this is optional but helps give context to the individual files Your students will click on this to access the content of the zipped folder. Click on the Add an activity or resource menu for that topic and select Folder and Add.Locate the ‘topic’ where you would like your resource to be displayed.From within QMplus, click on the TURN EDITING ON button (top right of your screen).Step 2: Selecting Folder from the Add a resource menu To move multiple files in to this folder simply drag and drop or copy and paste your desired files into your new zipped folder.Right click an empty space on your desktop or documents area choose New > Compressed (zipped) folder.Step 1: Zipping Files/Folders on your computer View your files (the contents from your zipped folder) on your course page.Create a zipped folder on your computer.On Windows, the default relies on a zip program (for example that from Rtools) being in the path. Note: From ?zip, regarding the zip argument. # updating: testDir/cats.csv (deflated 27%)Īnd unzip it to view the files, unzip('testZip.zip', list = TRUE) # updating: testDir/test.csv (deflated 68%) Zip(zipfile = 'testZip', files = files2zip) You can zip the whole directory of files (if no sub-folders) with files2zip <- dir('testDir', full.names = TRUE) We can see its size relative to the original unzipped file with (c('testZip.zip', 'testDir/test.csv')) You can override these settings if you like.
You pass the file name to the ZipEntry constructor it sets the other parameters such as file date and decompression method. For each entry that you want to place into the ZIP file, you create a ZipEntry object. The zipped file is saved in the current working directory, unless a different path is specified in the zipfile argument. To write a ZIP file, you use a ZipOutputStream. # adding: testDir/test.csv (deflated 68%) Zip(zipfile = 'testZip', files = 'testDir/test.csv') Say you have a directory testDir and you wish to zip a file (or multiple files) inside the directory, dir('testDir')
#HOW DO YOU CREATE A ZIP FOLDER ZIP FILE#
You can create a zip file with the function zip from utils package quite easily.