Corrupt files

[jibber4568]

HIT THE REPAIR BUTTON!!

LOL wtf can people be this dense? What the hell...wow just wow.
Also check out Auto Repair above it, just incase you forget how to repair again

Ok easy now, im not that dense, just new. Are you dense for stalling a car the first time you drove one????

Thanks alot for pointing this out above. When i was intoduced to newsgroups, the way i was shown to do it would be to just run one of the par files which would always solve any problems. This is the first time i have had to do anything else.

Thanks for all your help on something that is clearly quite trivial.

Once again no need for the criticism, we all gotta start somewhere.

Cheers guys

[..:: c.R ::..]

dasheeki,

That's fuckin' rude man. He's a n00b, he stated he was sorry asking those reptative, simple questions. There is no reason why a member of this forum needs to flame him.

Cut the guy some slack. This is forum about "how-to" mainly and your negative comments are disruptive to the tossing of ideas and suggestions.

Like my grandmother use to say, "If you have nothing good to say, then refrain from something saying anything at all."

And to jibber, hope we were able to help you out and that you haven't turned your back on the Usenet community.

[Broken]

Without the easy questions my Post count would be about 3. lol.

[jibber4568]

dasheeki,

That's fuckin' rude man. He's a n00b, he stated he was sorry asking those reptative, simple questions. There is no reason why a member of this forum needs to flame him.

Cut the guy some slack. This is forum about "how-to" mainly and your negative comments are disruptive to the tossing of ideas and suggestions.

Like my grandmother use to say, "If you have nothing good to say, then refrain from something saying anything at all."

And to jibber, hope we were able to help you out and that you haven't turned your back on the Usenet community.

Not at all mate. Every forums got a few idiots that just need to be ignored.

Once again cheers all for solving my (very simple) problem, lol.

[mesaman]

NNTP (news-news transport protocol) is an electronic bucket brigade; the possibility of the files being corrupted throughout the process is rife!

Original Poster transmit to news-server.

News-server to News-server

News-server to ultimate downloader

Things are MUCH better these days than even a couple years ago. But 'stuff' still happens, which is why parity (PAR/PAR2) files exist. But the number of huge transfers (4.5 to 9GB) without any need to repair is kinda stunning, once you realize things.

i.e., look at the 'path' in the downloaded parts for a clue to this; how many 'hops' did the files take....? I get things with > 10 jumps all the time, it's rare to get no hops at all.

During 2007, if a multipart was corrupted but not missing, then 99% of the time it was due to one particular bug with Diablo news server software. This nasty bug was finally killed in November, but some providers haven't upgraded their software yet.

As for the post that is in this topic, the cause of the problem with parts 155, 158 and 159 is in the remaining 1% of issues; in this case, Newshosting's American & European servers were assigning identical Message-ID's to two posts made at the same time to each location. The left half of the Message-ID is generated by the time of posting, and Newshosting uses the same string for the right half for both US and Europe.