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Geek Culture / Really stupid download problem. Any help?

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 02:29
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Hey everyone, lately when i try to download anything, (yes, I have high-speed internet) It will go perfectly fine til it gets to 95 percent.
Then it gets stuck for about ten minutes, wont budge, then suddenly finishes and the file is corrupt.
Anyone know what could be wrong?
Thanks in advance

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 02:33
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What browser are you using? And is this on TGC only, or other sites as well? We'll be able to help more when you answer these.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 02:35
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I'm using IE8, and the only website I'm ever on is TGC
So I dont know.
Hangon I'll see if Firefox will work

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 02:41
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Firefox gets stuck at 94%

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demons breath
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 03:53
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Well in the alphabet I>F so IE>Firefox and as 95>94, maybe your solution is just to use a browser which starts with a letter quite late in the alphabet. Anything starting with an X or later should work. What browsers fall into that category?

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AndrewT
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:01
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Quote: "Well in the alphabet I>F so IE>Firefox and as 95>94"


ERROR: INVALID EXPRESSION "IE>Firefox"

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demons breath
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:07
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Haha true fact. I was talking merely alphabetically. Although from what I've heard Firefox has not been without it's problems of late.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:17
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Quote: "ERROR: INVALID EXPRESSION "IE>Firefox""


LOL!

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:23
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Alright no real suggsetions?
Any other good browsers?

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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:25
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Here's a good Bowser.



And I hear Opera is a good browser.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:32
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I'm downloading opera

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Venge
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:35
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That is a very good Bowser. I recommend Chrome too.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:37
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Yay! operas download diddnt get stuck.
Lets see what happens when I try to download stuff from it :\\

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:37
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Chrome is good, although not yet fully supported. But I like it because its interface allows for optimum viewage of nice webpages, and each tab uses its own process, which results in a nice browser.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:45
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stuck at 95 percent

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Venge
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:48
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Are you trying the same file every time or something? Maybe try downloading and running CCleaner.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:49
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What is ccleaner?
And no, i'm trying various files

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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:57
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It cleans up various temporary files, internet caches, cookies, etc.

You can select what you want to delete, for example I never delete cookies because then I have to log in to all my websites again. Pretty much all the other default stuff can go though. The registry-cleaning part of that program is pretty handy too.

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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 04:58 Edited at: 28th Nov 2009 04:58
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Does it have a feature to clean my house?
Where in IA are you BTW?

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 05:01
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Hangon, lets hope it'll download.
BTW I love this Opera browser.
Its ace!

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Currently at home in south-centralish, but I'm going to college on the eastern end, right on the river.

I'm pretty sure it hasn't cleaned my house yet. I looked, but there's no "run vacuum" option.

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Darn, I was hoping for that option.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 05:09
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CCleaner didnt work

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Jeku
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 19:10
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But the fact you could download Opera and CCleaner means the problem is with the server of the files that are getting stuck, right? If all those "various" files are from the same server, then it's probably their problem. Try completely different sites.


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General Jackson
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 21:08
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Ok, I think you are correct, I just tried turbosquid and everything I downloaded from there is good.
So any suggestions?

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what virus system are you using? I find that sometimes its these little sods who make you wait while it checks it all.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 28th Nov 2009 21:59
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I also have drama downloading from the forums. Anything > than a few meg fails.


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General Jackson
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 01:40
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Avast Antivirus.
Maybe I'll try uninstalling it and see what happens.

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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 01:41
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Antiviruses are a pain

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General Jackson
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 01:56
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YEEESSSSS!!!!
it worked!

Thanks for the suggestion, wouldnta thought a antivirus would do that to me

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Master Man Of Justice
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 01:57
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like i told ya, they're a pain

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General Jackson
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 01:59
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Yeeeeep

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Thraxas
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 02:06
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I had this problem in the past and there was absolutely nothing I could do to fix it. Not even a fresh install of the entire system helped.

Eventually it sorted itself out Sorry I can't be more helpful but it wasn't anything I did that fixed the problem.

I do remember using something like 'free download manager', turning off the multiple download which supposedly speeds things up and getting files like that. It will resume the broken download for you but it does go very slowly.
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General Jackson
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 02:12
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K, thanks, I'll check it out.

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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 02:17
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I had this problem, usually in the 98-99% region, for a while. It fixed itself when I hit the router so hard that I cracked the case edge to edge. How odd. Perhaps it was overheating and the cracks enhanced ventilation.

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Quote: "It fixed itself when I hit the..."


Hitting electronic equipment fixes 90% of problems.
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General Jackson
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 04:05
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My dad would agree with that
He HATES computers.
I jokingly say we need to institute computers rights!

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Quote: "Hitting electronic equipment fixes 90% of problems."


so true. I backhanded my pc one time and it stoped locking up on me

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