# Manifest file fails after edits **URL:** \ **Category:** Archived\ **Tags:** roku-developer-program\ **Created:** [October 19, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582 "2020-10-19T15:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![coskel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/roku/user_avatar/forum.developer.roku.com/coskel/32/91_2.png) [@coskel](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/coskel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582/1 "2020-10-19T15:57:20Z")
Revisiting creating a new channel, first time since 2016. Using Visual Studio Code with the Brightscript extension installed. I have downloaded the sample files from Git hub to play around with, if I edit any of them, repackage as a zip and side load, they fail. Only trying basic edits to text at this point. sideloading the clean sample channels, works, just not after any edits. Do I need to save them as a specific file extension? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![necrotek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@necrotek](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/necrotek)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582/2 "2020-10-19T18:54:52Z")
Have you opened up the zip and made sure that the manifest is included in the zip? and in the top level. What is the error message? ---
**Author:** ![coskel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/roku/user_avatar/forum.developer.roku.com/coskel/32/91_2.png) [@coskel](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/coskel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582/3 "2020-10-19T19:40:40Z")
yep, its definitely there. Error is: Application Received: 414389 bytes stored. Install Failure: No manifest. Invalid package. ---
**Author:** ![necrotek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@necrotek](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/necrotek)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582/4 "2020-10-22T14:31:18Z")
are you on an apple MAC computer? if you create the zip on a Mac it includes system files that can cause a zip to fail. ---
**Author:** ![coskel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/roku/user_avatar/forum.developer.roku.com/coskel/32/91_2.png) [@coskel](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/coskel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582/5 "2020-10-22T15:05:53Z")
Nope, on a PC. ---
**Author:** ![necrotek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@necrotek](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/necrotek)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582/6 "2020-10-22T15:45:48Z")
Are you still having the issue or did you solve the issue? How are you creating the zip? when you open the zip you should see: dir. components dir. images dir. source file. manifest If the first thing you see is a directory with the name of the folder you zipped then that is incorrect format for the zip. The above structure needs to be in the root of the zip. ---
**Author:** ![coskel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/roku/user_avatar/forum.developer.roku.com/coskel/32/91_2.png) [@coskel](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/coskel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582/7 "2020-10-22T16:45:46Z")
…and I’m an idiot. It’s been so long since I created one of these, forgot that step. SIGH. Sorry to waste your time. Many thanks for getting back to me, though. I really appreciate it. Kel ---
**Author:** ![necrotek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@necrotek](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/necrotek)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-file-fails-after-edits/9582/8 "2020-10-22T16:53:27Z")
No worries, happy to help with even the simplest of problems when I can.