Leonides extracting error?

[ThinkingManNeil]

Downloaded Keith Paine's superb Percival Proctor T1 last night and thoroughly enjoyed a quick hop over Quinte's Isle (aka Prince Edward County, Ontario). I've seen people recommend adding Gary Jones' Single Leonides sound set so I went ahead and downloaded that from BritSim but got an error message when I tried to extract it to a temp file saying it was in an unknown format or that the file itself may possibly be damaged. Anybody else get this? Is there a way around it?

Cheers,

N.

 

[racartron]

I downloaded it when it first came out without any problems. However, sometimes when downloading a file from BritSim the file gets corrupted and will not unzip. it usually downloads successfully after multiple attempts. This may or maynot be the same issue you are having.

 

[Terry]

Have you tried http://www.jzip.com/?r=1. It works better than Winzip etc.

 

[ThinkingManNeil]

I downloaded it when it first came out without any problems. However, sometimes when downloading a file from BritSim the file gets corrupted and will not unzip. it usually downloads successfully after multiple attempts. This may or maynot be the same issue you are having.

Fourth time was the charm. Thanks.

N.

 

[RyDraiggoch]

Neil

I have said this time and time again on this forum - Its a source of irriitation to the admin staff at Britsim as to why some people have this error and others do not. The "corrupt" file is due to an incomplete download - by your server cutting off BEFORE the download is complete. This can be caused by many reasons and I am well aware that it is a source of irritation to you folks as well as a burr under my saddle personally , because although I am an admin at "The Pond" I possess a non administrative log in so I can check these kind of problems. I have used it in several different places in the US and never experienced this problem. I do know that through research it seems to be most prevalent among larger files. It is a constant source of irritation to myself and other admin staff at Britsim that people seem to ignore the forum we have there specifically for addressing these kinds of problems and run to other sites and complain that we have corrupt files....time and again when people do have problems downloading from Britsim IF they address it in our forum we will put a temporary link up in the forum so the person(s) having difficulties may download the files they want. It cost them nothing and is as quick as any other method. However it takes a couple of things to make it happen, Firstly we (the Admin staff at Britsim) Need to know that someone is having difficulties , NOT by accidentally coming across threads like this one. Secondly when you tell us of problems AT Britsim we can deal with them faster and with a lot less fuss. Finally as a certain Admin is wont to tell me, its FREEWARE - we run the website with our own passion of British Aviation for our enjoyment and the enjoyment of others in the hobby. We don't charge any one a penny for registering at The Pond and the library will always contain ONLY freeware, so rather than go elsewhere and say "This is a corrupt file" why not just drop us a line at the Pond and we will do our best to satisfy your needs.


Sorry it was long but its a real source of irritation to me, I'll have a link to a download of the Leonides sound file in about ten minutes.

Leif
Adminstrative Staff
www.britism.com

 

[racartron]

Hi Leif, This is not a problem for me -- just part of the current technology issues facing us all. If a file doesn't D/L properly, I just repeat the process until it works. I did try it after the question arose today and the file downloaded fine the first time. Like I said no big deal.

However, in the future, whenever I do run across the problem, I promise to notify y'all properly -- on your site

One intereting aside though(this will most likely really irritate you). Britsim is the only site where I ever get an incomplete D/L and I do a LOT of downloads every day from many sites both for business as well as simming.

As my IT Director once said, this is really just an undocumented feature we should all embrace.

 

[ThinkingManNeil]

Neil

I have said this time and time again on this forum - Its a source of irriitation to the admin staff at Britsim as to why some people have this error and others do not. The "corrupt" file is due to an incomplete download - by your server cutting off BEFORE the download is complete. This can be caused by many reasons and I am well aware that it is a source of irritation to you folks as well as a burr under my saddle personally , because although I am an admin at "The Pond" I possess a non administrative log in so I can check these kind of problems. I have used it in several different places in the US and never experienced this problem. I do know that through research it seems to be most prevalent among larger files. It is a constant source of irritation to myself and other admin staff at Britsim that people seem to ignore the forum we have there specifically for addressing these kinds of problems and run to other sites and complain that we have corrupt files....time and again when people do have problems downloading from Britsim IF they address it in our forum we will put a temporary link up in the forum so the person(s) having difficulties may download the files they want. It cost them nothing and is as quick as any other method. However it takes a couple of things to make it happen, Firstly we (the Admin staff at Britsim) Need to know that someone is having difficulties , NOT by accidentally coming across threads like this one. Secondly when you tell us of problems AT Britsim we can deal with them faster and with a lot less fuss. Finally as a certain Admin is wont to tell me, its FREEWARE - we run the website with our own passion of British Aviation for our enjoyment and the enjoyment of others in the hobby. We don't charge any one a penny for registering at The Pond and the library will always contain ONLY freeware, so rather than go elsewhere and say "This is a corrupt file" why not just drop us a line at the Pond and we will do our best to satisfy your needs.


Sorry it was long but its a real source of irritation to me, I'll have a link to a download of the Leonides sound file in about ten minutes.

Leif
Adminstrative Staff
www.britism.com

Hi Leif;

First let me say that I think that you and your fellow simmers over at "The Pond" do a truly bang-up, splendid job; your projects have given me great enjoyment and have genuinely enhanced my simming experience. I also genuinely appreciate that it's freeware and that a lot of hard work and generosity goes into it; if it wasn't for all the great freeware developers out there I wouldn't enjoy FS2004 an eighth of what I do now as I live on a small, fixed disability pension. The reason I posted the note here was simply because another member had mentioned the Leonides sound pack and I was just wondering if anyone else had had a similar problem to mine and if there was a simple solution I was unaware of. It wasn't intended in any way as a complaint. I've had similar glitches once in a blue moon downloading other files from other sites so it's in no ways unique to yours. I simply posted here mostly out of force of habit and because the file had been mentioned. If I offended or upset you in any way I do sincerely apologize; it was quite unintentional.

Regards,

Neil H.

PS. I did get the file to open properly and have installed it into Keith's Provost. My compliments to Gary Jones for his excellent work and my best wishes to him for better health