as I mentioned in the other post, the only course I have looked at, has got a problem with an asset that is corrupt. that is not a Memrise infrastructure problem but is something that the course creator has got wrong with that asset. as simple as reuploading and it will work.
I suspect the courses you are posting here have got the same problem. If you try to download an official course (or any of the thousands of great user generated courses that are maintained) you will see how they download just fine. I will be inspecting them and letting the course creators know about the problems in their courses.
I am going to kindly request you to use respectful language from now on. I have edited that last message to reflect that as we will not tolerate bad language or abuse here.
Where I will check my course so that they would be correct. I made a lot of my courses. I had over 30 offline courses on my tablet. I downloaded all of them. Now I can’t download them. Where is the error? Is it my fault or Memrise fault? As I see it that it is a memrise fault.
Thanks for the reply as well as investigating the issue. I see that I could re-upload the courses I’d love to study and manage it myself, but there are concerns:
I might lose my progress on that course
Not giving a proper credit (what is the course’s license, btw ) to the course’s original author, though maybe I could set it as unlisted, however,
Other users cannot create mems on top of the re-uploaded, unlisted courses.
With that being said, is there any way to ignore corrupted parts of the course and proceed with the download? I tried a third party, Anki-style app that has import & download feature from Memrise decks here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MemorionSoft.MemorionV2&hl=en and the app manage to download it for offline use. I am somewhat optimistic that this can be solved.
And thanks for your works at Memrise. Community-based courses might be varied in quality, yet for users like me, it is one of the best features of memrise compared to its competitors.
Hey! So as Olaf suggested we can definitely grant contributor access to courses that are abandoned. Please refer to that and ask in that part of the forum, we will get it sorted.
We are looking at ways to improve further offline mode and looking at the rate corrupted assets fail is on our radar. We might ignore them fully or ignore IF there is a low percentage. That being said, the quality of a course depends highly on its assets so we always recommend keeping them up and healthy.
I am having the same issue, but intermittently. Some courses will download just fine, others usually fine, some virtually never (though they did download before). They are usually relatively small courses, some without even images or audio.
@JBorrego: could you have a look at my course that doesn’t download?
BTW: I see that you found some ‘corrupt assests’ with the courses you looked at. Do you think that Memrise would be able to find why those corruptions actually come into existence and fix the root course? Thanks anyway.
Actually, that is not what I experience. When I remove the download of course, the course will ‘refresh’ itself (sometimes after a few seconds, sometimes after many tries). Downloaded courses won’t refresh. But anyway, I see it as a bug, too.
That’s quite interesting. I just went ahead and changed something in a course and then downloaded it. The download didn’t work (it was stuck at 0% for some ten minutes), but when I cancelled the download, the changes were updated in the course. That’s actually a nice workaround, cheers!
I can see the behaviour on that course is different. I am not sure why yet.
We will be working on allowing courses with a % of corrupt assets to be downloaded. We will be looking at this after Christmas and see if we can improve it quickly. That way courses will require less maintenance too.
Thank you! I am looking forward to it.
Is there a way though, that prevents the corruptions to happen? And would there be a way to correct the corruptions? That seems more stable long term. Anyway, thanks and hopefully we’ll see the fix soon.
I just got a good download as well. Kind of a bummer that it took so long. But oh well, at least it’s working now. I fly all the time, so for months now I haven’t been studying because without internet the course just didn’t work on airplanes because you couldn’t download it.
Now, if they could only fix Kaniji from displaying TINY on tablets because the app scales but text doesn’t…that would be great! Hard to study when you can’t see the Kanji.
) to the course’s original author, though maybe I could set it as unlisted, however,
