Grrr Arghhh

[charmax]

Apparently there is some problem with my NTSC dvd. I offered it too soon. Unfortunately the files will not extract and at the moment I am way to tired to figure out what the issue is. If you've already taken the time to download these files I'm so so sorry for the inconvenience. I hope it won't put you off. :( Please abort if you're mid-download

Comments

[thefourthvine]

Huh. It did extract perfectly for me; I wonder what's going on? If you need data to help you figure out what's up, let me know.

[charmax]

I haven't a clue what's going on with it but morgandawn is having a lot of problems. She's tried 3 different download managers and once without. I've downloaded it again tonight to see myself and I had the same problem as her. I just dunno. I'm going to bed now but I'll look at it again tomorrow.

[morgandawn]

given the problems I just had trying to log into your ftp account, I am pointing my finger at your webhost (yahoo). The error messages they were sending for the ftp were bizarre.

so go rest!

[charmax]

I've downloaded it again and works. Others have too. Bizarre!

[kiki_miserychic]

*Pets you and says it will all be ok*

[charmax]

Cheers, kiki.

[przed]

I downloaded and extracted the NTSC version fine. For the record, I first tried to extract using the Mac tool you'd pointed to and it failed. I then tried using good old Stuffit Expander and it worked fine. I've mounted the disk on my hard drive and it plays fine. Haven't burned it yet, though.

[charmax]

Thanks P! It's a relief to hear someone else downloaded it ok. Last night before I went to bed I tried again and it dl'ed and it extracted using WinRar. Earlier in the evening when I tried that it wouldn't work. It's weird and it leaves me in an awkward position because what do I do to fix it? If it's a server problem (it's pointing to that now) do I say take a lucky dip? Arghhhh. Things never go smoothly. lol

[przed]

what do I do to fix it?

I know your frustration. I've faced a similar dilemma when people have contacted me about not being able to play my vids. Because in the end there is sometimes only so much you can do.

[luridmuse]

I had no problems -except Getright making me put the password/log in information in every time I d/l'd a chunk.
no issues extracting - I just right clicked on the first zip and winRAR unzipped it all, then did the same with the big 3g RAR it made.

funny thing I did notice though is that I could not unrar it with the plain ol Windows XP un-rar ability. I HAD to use winRAR to get it all open.
System info incase you need it, would be Windows XP computer, WinRAR Crystal version used to unpack it.

[morgandawn]

what's weird is that charmax had the same problems in using winrar to open her files after I failed 3x. I just tried accessing the files using ftp and we're getting the same error message from winrar that the first file is corrupt - so perhaps a new upload?

[charmax]

I really don't know what to do because I re-downloaded the files before I went to bed and this time they extracted! No problems at all using WinRar. I am putting the blame on Yahoo being temperamental. For now.

[morgandawn]

OK, sometimes these servers are problematic. so let me try another download using ftp and report back in.

[anoel]

I extracted it with WinRar and errors came up but the ISO works perfectly fine. So that's good at least.

[charmax]

I don't know what to make of it because sometimes it works fine. Without errors.