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Downloading Question

firefly43firefly43 Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Many times when you go to the product page there is a tab in the information area that reads "Resource" Sometimes they are zip files other times they are executable files (.exe)

What are the exe files?
Where do they get placed when you run them?
Why do I get a message with some of them that they "may cause harm to my computer"

I know the zip files are templates, and I have established a separate folder that holds each template in its own product folder, but the exe ones have me at a loss.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited October 2013

    The ones in installers are usually found on older products, and haven't been converted to the new zip system yet. If you have made a folder for your templates, just direct the installer to the folder and it will place the templates in there when you run it.

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • SiscaSisca Posts: 875
    edited December 1969

    The message that they "may cause harm to your computer" is a Windows message that comes up because the file is flagged as downloaded from the internet and is an executable file. If you purposely downloaded it from a trusted site you should be fine.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    ah yes, forgot that bit, it is an annoying message that Windoze sticks up every time you download and installer .exe, regardless of the site you download it from. I can assure you that I have been downloading DAZ 3D installer .exe files for some 14 or 15 years and they are perfectly safe, even though windoze and most AV programs do like to operate in paranoid mode and flag them up in this manner.

    As Sisca says, there are maybe some sites that I would distrust an .exe from, but they are the sort of sites I would not knowingly download from anyway.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited December 1969

    firefly43, what operating system are you using? I do not believe Macintosh computers cannot run .exe files.

  • firefly43firefly43 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Sisca & Chohole

    Thanks loads, I usually do not get that message when I download exe programs (except for here) It usually states something along the lines that the program is not typically used on this system ... So I was not sure if it was a Mac file. Now my assumption is that the exe is simply holding templates in an executable format for installing to a destination, and windows dose not recognize the contents as a program so it has decided it "may harm my computer"

    Thanks for the heads up, I will just open them directly into their respective folders in my "Resource folder Tree"

    Starionwolf,
    Thanks for the concern that I might be running Mac and therefore blow my computer out of the water .... LOL
    I have Windows 7 so exe would not be a problem generally,

    Really am loving this place, might have to wait a bit for answers sometimes, but most times everyone is willing to help and quick to answer, Sooooooo ...... Thanks everyone!!

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    We aim to please ...................... well most of the time ............. sometimes we do aim to hit people with flying cream pies and things, but that is another story :coolgrin:

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,973
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    We aim to please ...................... well most of the time ............. sometimes we do aim to hit people with flying cream pies...

    So that's what "revenge is sweet" means... :P

  • firefly43firefly43 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I duck better then most .... run slow but know how to weave ...... and learned drop and roll at a pretty young age ... so I think I'm safe! :cheese:

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,205
    edited October 2013

    ...now boys and girls, when you use the fluffy whiteness of the creme pie heading towards your face, what should you do?


    Duck and Cover!!!!


    That's right.


    :cheese:

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
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