Resources on Mac

[LisaD]

I download both the ActivInspire Professional Editon application and the Resources. (And ran the installer for both.) How many resources should be there and why are most of my folders empty?

I checked with another Mac user and she is experiencing the same thing.

Lisa

[dglover]

I download both the ActivInspire Professional Editon application and the Resources. (And ran the installer for both.) How many resources should be there and why are most of my folders empty?

I checked with another Mac user and she is experiencing the same thing.

Lisa

Hi Lisa, please could you advise which folders you can see in the resource browser? It should be these...

Activities and templates
Backgrounds
Grids
Lesson building tools
Resource packs
Sounds
Subjects
Web links

[dglover]

Another point on this - the resource folders in the final version (as listed above) are different to the ones in the Beta version. If you installed the Beta version, you'll have a number of different folders, such as..

__Flipchart pages
__Resource packs
Chemistry
Space
etc...

These were since re-structured for the final version and condensed. Most of these initial folders were streamlined into the 'Subjects' folder. Therefore there will be empty folders still there from the Beta version.

We considered removing these Beta folders, but we can't be certain that these do not contain any saved work and we don't want to remove that! :)

[LisaD]

Ok I think I understand.

Attached is a compilation screenshot of the current folder structure with the lines crossing through those folders I think I can delete. Is this accurate?



The Shared "x" folders are the folders from my AS3 stuff so I don't delete them?
The Resource Pack folder is empty now but I assume it is reserved for "future" resource packs, not ones I previously installed (which would be in the Shared "x" folder- mostly "Shared Collections/Resource Packs.)


Is this correct?

Lisa

[dglover]

Ok I think I understand.

Attached is a compilation screenshot of the current folder structure with the lines crossing through those folders I think I can delete. Is this accurate?



The Shared "x" folders are the folders from my AS3 stuff so I don't delete them?
The Resource Pack folder is empty now but I assume it is reserved for "future" resource packs, not ones I previously installed (which would be in the Shared "x" folder- mostly "Shared Collections/Resource Packs.)
Is this correct?

Lisa

Hi Lisa, the folders you've identified are correct - they're the beta ones. Feel free to delete them assuming you've not got any saved work in there. :)

I'd hold onto to my AS3 resources if I were you then you have ALL the resources! :D

That's correct with regards to the 'Resource packs' folder.

Kind Regards
Dave

[LisaD]

Cool! Thanks, I'll clean them up today and I am so pumped to start exploring the new resources! Great job, team!

Lisa

[april.coughlin]

Where should I install the resources?

[Louise Chew]

I'd say just use the default options it gives you when you install
the app will find it when it starts & if you have v3 already installed then you'll be able to see both sets of resources

I don't know whether any "real users" have any other thoughts?

[LisaD]

yeah, when I saw that "where" question comes up, I just let the "default" choice do its thing. That usually the best way I've found on most computer stuff and it worked for me!

Lisa

[bsteinbach]

I would actually like some kind of 'resource clean up program'. I've installed ActivStudio 3, ActivInspire Beta, and now ActivInspire Professional. I feel like I have random resources all over the place. When I clicked to have the Inspire resources installed into the default location, I would open up the resource browser and see (in addition to the resources) all of the files from the main Activstudio 3 folder (all of the programs). Can anyone explain where exactly they should be installing to? I noticed that unlike in Activstudio 3, resources are no longer seperated in folders by their format (i.e. pictures, tickertapes)?

Also, is there a reason why the ActivStudio 3 install software had two CDs of resources, but the Inspire software only came in one file that is collectively smaller than the two resource install files from ActivStudio3?