Zip file doesn't work as attachment?

Hi,

I tried now to load a normal zip-file as attachment, but I get the error message "Invalid File".

Can somebody tell me why?

Where are you attaching it?

 

P.S. I believe it has some reference to Flight Sim right?

Yes, a FSX-simmer from the FSXforum has difficulties with a AI-Flightplan and I constructed it for him. The zipfile contains 3 txt-files and a bgl-file. The 3 files are loadable. A bgl-file I know isn't allowed. But within a zip-file I can in other forums attach.

I tried attaching at my answer.

 

Thank you for the quick answer

When you attach it you see a message why you can't.

Only some images can be attached. .png and .jpg I think. Also a 500kb limit.

You can place it in the library as your own creation, but then it's available to everyone and you must include documentation, a readme.txt.

Easyert is to email it to your pal.

OK, thank you, I have to accept, but I can't understand because at the Manage Attachments is written:

 

Valid file extensions: bmp doc gif jpe jpeg jpg pdf png psd txt zip

 

And this is obviously not true:confused:

My zip file has 1KB!

When opening the "manage attachments", from the "Advanced" options. I then clicked the question-mark sign at the top right, (see black arrow), and got this popup:

 

 

.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, and .txt files. No .zip files.

 

I agree, it does mention them below the "Post Advanced" page. And I think it used to be possible a few years ago, but I didn't pay much attention to it. Seems that option has been disabled/removed.

 

I mentioned some ways to do this in my the previous post here. Another thing you could do is upload the file to a file hosting site. Or put them on your own website. Then you can of course place a link to that page on this website. For an example of this, see Jim Robinsons post (post #20) here:

https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?295452-Isn-t-there-supposed-to-be-a-To-From-indicator-for-the-Lear-45-HSI&p=1959105#post1959105

Thank you again for answering, now I know what to do with zip-file attachments in this forum.