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#10 Downloaded files are junk :/

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2004-02-21
2004-02-21
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Almost all the files I download are unusable. There must
be something wrong while combining the parts. 4 parts
are downloading simultaneously, and no errors are
shown when completed, but files are junk. I can't open
any of the downloaded. :/
I'm using WinXP + ZoneAlarm Pro + Download Plus! v.
0.075

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  • Sylvain Dupont

    Sylvain Dupont - 2004-03-09

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    Please post a URL of problematic files.
    Maybe the server doesn't support resuming... so it downloads
    several times the same thing.

    Thanks

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    your zone alarm must be corrupting the downloads
    turn it off and try again
    upgrade it and try again
    i have the same setup and it works for me

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    I just downloaded this myself, and I haven't tested it on
    anything yet. But I am wondering if what you are saying
    could be a result in downloading binary in ASCII and
    viceversa... Maybe?

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    I get a similar issue with TrueDownloader 0.82
    Some of the files I downloaded were short of the size they
    should have beeen. I noticed in one instance while I had
    multiple downloads, the session files for one download were
    larger than the download itself was supposed to be and I
    believe it actually had part of the other downloads in there
    by mistake.

    Some downloads show complete with the correct size, but when
    you look at the actual file it is short and unusuable. I've
    had this from a number of sites, including www.mozilla.org

    I'm using Win2k Sp3, ZoneAlarm, TrueDownloader 0.82

     
  • Sirmatto

    Sirmatto - 2005-08-12

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    I too have had this bug on a few occasions. It seems to
    happen per session of TrueDownloader instead of per
    download. I will have a few files from different sites
    queued up and every single one will be corrupt. If I
    restart the program and redownload all the links, they will
    all be fine. I don't remember all the links off hand, but I
    know some were from SourceForge, so it's most likely not a
    server-side issue. It's not a bug I can produce though, it
    seems to be completely random.

    My setup is Windows XP with the default firewall and v.82 of
    TrueDownloader. I feed downloads to TrueDownloader through
    Flashgot in Firefox, but this doesn't seem to be causing the
    problem, because adding the links in manually will have the
    same effect.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    I have this problem too. v0.82 no zone alarm though. Just XP
    SP2.

     
  • a2765be

    a2765be - 2007-08-20

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    I got a similar issue. Recently I downloaded several video files using TrueDownloader 0.82. It took a while as the server was slow and often dropped connection. Although TrueDownloader did not report any problem, most of the the downloaded video files did not play! Then I downloaded the SAME files from the SAME server using Free Download Manager. All of the files played! Amazingly, "bad" and "good" files were identical in size!

     

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