Downloading, Unzipping, and Filing Your Digital Scrapbooking Products

Step-by-step instructions for downloading your digital scrapbooking products from Scrap Girls.

1. Go to this web address:

http://store.scrapgirls.com/download

 

2. Put the password that you were given in the “Comments” section of your order delivery email into the password box that you will see when you get there. It will be a long string of numbers and letters, something like 123BO234709WER32497. (I just invented this one for demonstration purposes. It doesn't work.)

Tip: Copy and paste it directly from your email rather than trying to type it in. It's a lot easier that way! If you are uncertain about how to copy and paste do this:

• Put your cursor at the beginning of your passcode.

• Hold your left mouse button down as you drag your cursor across the whole passcode. It will become highlighted when you are through.

• Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C to copy your highlighted passcode.

• Put your cursor in the download passcode box.

• Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+V to paste your copied passcode in.

Push the “Access Download Area” button, and you will go on to the download page. If you get an error about your passcode being wrong, something has gone wrong as you were copying and pasting. The most common problems are due to people trying to type the passcode in, so I don't recommend it at all.

 

When you get to the download page, you will see something like this.

 

3. Push the first download button. You'll see something like this.

 

4. Choose the “Save” option. After you have chosen that, you will see a dialog come up that allows you to choose your download location on your computer. Now, I just happen to have set up a folder which is located inside the “My Documents” folder which I call “Software Downloads.” Your computer may be either pointing your download to your temporary file (which is fairly common) or it will point to the last place you downloaded something.

This dialog is your opportunity to choose where you want your files to end up. Pick a place where you can remember where they are (such as in a folder that you create for them inside of your “My Documents” folder or other similar place). Then choose to “Save.”

 

5. Your computer will then show you the progress of your download.

6. Repeat these steps one download button at a time until you have downloaded all of the zipped folders.

 

7. Now, go to the folder on your computer where you downloaded the files. You will see folders that look like this. (Of course, you will see more than one of them. I have just downloaded one to illustrate the principle to you.)

8. Right-click on one of the zipped folders. (You can tell when a folder is zipped because it has the little zipper around it.) When you do that, a menu will pop-up. Choose “Extract All” from the options you see.

 

9. You will then see the Extraction Wizard. Click on the “Next” button.

 

10. When you see this page, just click through it. It allows you to choose a different location for your unpacked files to go, but we will just have them go to the same location where your zipped folder is located.

 

11. You will then see this dialog, telling you that your files are unzipped. Click on the “Finish” button and you are through.

12. Click into the folders and you will see your files. In this example, I am showing you the Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed movie icons. To watch one of the movies, just double-click on it and your Windows Media player should open and the movie will start. If you had purchased graphics from us, you would see the little icons representing the images in the folder.

 

13. If you close down the new, unzipped folder and look in your original folder, you will now see your original zipped folder and the unzipped folder.

 

14. If you happened to have purchased the Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed training series, you will find that there are multiple movies in most of the folders. You will see something that looks like this.

Notice that this particular folder has the 13th and 14th movies in it. They are all numbered, and you should start by watching movie number one and then move to movie number two, etc. If you wish, you could move all of the movies into a single folder. They just have to be downloaded as they are because if they came in one big folder, it would be too big to download!

To move the movies into a new folder, do this:

• Create a folder somewhere on your computer (maybe in your “My Documents” folder) with the name of the product you have purchased.

• Reduce your window sizes so that you can see both the prepared folder and the folder with your movie files in them.

• Grab one of the movies by clicking on it (single-click) and then drag it over to the prepared folder window. Continue doing this until all of your movies, the copyright information, and all other documentation that comes with the product is moved together.

To watch one of the movies, just double-click on it and it will immediately start. You do NOT have to open your viewer and then browse to the movie and start it that way. If the movie doesn't start or if you can't see a play button once the viewer comes up, it means that something is wrong with your movie viewer (QuickTime or Windows Media Viewer). You can find updated versions and information at:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

You can find updated versions and information about the Windows Media Viewer at:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

Problems with the movies playing are always related to the players and not to the actual movies themselves. If you need additional advice, contact us at hello@scrapgirls.com.

 

15. If you happen to have downloaded one of our graphic folders, you will see something like this when you look in the zipped folders. This sample is Erica Hite's ScrapSimple Alpha Templates: Henna Biggie. Notice that it has many graphic images and instructions for use.

Advice and specific information about how to file them on your computer so that they will be easy to find can be found here.

Free tutorial by Rozanne Paxman, Scrap Girls CEO

Note: The best way to print out this tutorial is to copy it and paste it in MS Word. If you do not own MS Word, you can get a free piece of software that will accept it as if it is a Word document at Open Office.

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