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I saw this and thought "eh, that doesn't bother me, I already used the 'export your photos' thing." So I went to my TwitPic settings page, clicked the link, and downloaded a 14MB zip file.

The only thing is, it's empty. I don't know how you get a 14MB zip file that's empty, but Windows is telling me it's empty. That's not cool.

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Advice on your issue from #quitpic:

14:23 <REDACTED> you have to enable the "show hidden folders" in windows, under their view options

14:24 <REDACTED> each version of windows is slightly different but it is usually press alt, select tools, folder options, view, and the radio next to show hidden files and folders and then ok

14:24 <REDACTED> then you close and reopen the zip file

14:30 <REDACTED> oh, and sometimes the first download is corrupt.

14:30 <REDACTED> I've had to help too many people at work with this problem plus a person or two on this channel

What the hell? I wonder why that's the case. I can see why they wouldn't have time or money to fix it, but why is it that way in the first place?

Thanks, but that doesn't appear to be the problem with my file. I tried to extract the files, and then Windows tells me that the archive is invalid.

>14:30 <REDACTED> oh, and sometimes the first download is corrupt.

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