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| Thread ID: 32169 | 2003-04-11 00:15:00 | Kazaa Lites' Gone Batty | JamesStewart (874) | Press F1 |
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| 134956 | 2003-04-11 00:15:00 | Hey all. I'm using Kazaa Lite 2.1 K++ Edition (Based on KMD 2.0.2) and I was download a certon file (700000kb's on a dial-up connection O_o) it was downloading fine, got to about 300m's and when the power to my house cut out for about 1 minute. I turned the computer back on, went to continue the download it it wasn't in the "Traffic" window. I then look in "My Shared Folder" and the .dat file is gone! I then thought "Ah, I know, I'll use Restorer" (from one of the PC World CD's) and it found the file, I put it in the folder where it should be and said "I recommend putting the file in a differant director to aviod overwritting exsisting files" and I clicked "No". The file isn't there! What has happened, I mean 300mb files don't just get up and walk on out.... do they? Thanks James FYI: Went downloading a medium sized file from Kazaa Lite, have a look the the downloaded in Traffic (say it had done 2000kb's) then look in your kazaa sharing file and the .dat file will be 1.5-2 times larger than the download has done. Strang eh...... |
JamesStewart (874) | ||
| 134957 | 2003-04-11 02:19:00 | Hi J S, When the power goes off with computer running ,it sometimes acts as though it has crashed or blue-screened, thereby losing all data on open applications! Bad luck mate,as this seems to be what happened to you? Cheers,Kiwitas,;-) |
Kiwitas (514) | ||
| 134958 | 2003-04-11 03:18:00 | Yes that has happened to me just recently actually. I lost about 500mb when my computer froze, and my "helpful" brother decided to hard boot the comp. argh!! I'm using same version as you by the way. I think the best way to avoid it is to close KazaaLite down every 100-200mb. That practically saves it to the hard disk. Then just in case copy the .dat file to a temporary location in case of power losses, system crash etc etc. If you found your 300mb dat file your in luck. Make a new file sharing directory, put the dat file in there...then change the kazaa settings to make that directory the new filesharing directory. Hopefully you will be able to resume your download! |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 134959 | 2003-04-11 06:38:00 | AHHHHH!!!! yes....this happens with kazaa... happened to me too many times and it just happens that my computer's power randomly gets cut... safe way to download big file, if u hav enough free hd space would be to back up the .dat file after every night of downloading or something so if it does screw up, u only have to wait one more night one more weird thing is that even if ur computer crash while kazaa is running and downloading if i was able to use control-alt-del to restart then the file is safe but... if i need to press the reset button then i'm doomed also the extra big file while downloading i believe is cause by kazaa writing 0 to ur file then when u slowly download it fills it up eg. 12/1000kb from randomuser although u've downloaded only 12kb ur dat file would be 1000kb already |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 134960 | 2003-04-11 07:39:00 | Hey guys... ---Tape your plugs onto the wall and pay your power bills! .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 134961 | 2003-04-11 09:09:00 | lol clueless. Yea taping the power plugs into the wall is a good idea... And if you have a bit of money UPS is even better ;) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 134962 | 2003-04-11 09:12:00 | Anyone care to know that I thought up a system like UPS (Uninteruptible Power Supply) about 3years before they brought it out. Man I was annoyed when they did, cos I was thinking it would make me a lot of money later on.. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 134963 | 2003-04-12 07:38:00 | actually the random power cut is cause by my very very unstable system which i can't be bothered to reinstall :) |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 134964 | 2003-04-12 10:25:00 | Actually, I thought you said that the power was cut to your house :S | somebody (208) | ||
| 134965 | 2003-04-12 11:29:00 | You must be a real old fella then PoWa because uninterruptable power supplies have been around a long long time. They predate the PC by quite some time. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D |
Billy T (70) | ||
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