Avon
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Whenever I try to download a forum attachment bigger than about 500 kilobytes, I end up with a zero byte file instead.

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Schik
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What browser do you use? I assume you don't have this problem anywhere else?

Has anyone else ever had this problem?


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Avon
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Schik wrote:
What browser do you use?

IE6

I assume you don't have this problem anywhere else?

Not that I've noticed.

Has anyone else ever had this problem?

I think this is the problem some people (Mattcrampy and I at least) were having with Maps #2 and #4 in the Master Map of the Eighth competition. But now I can't download other large attachments, like DRODer!

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Nillo
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Avon wrote:
I can't download DRODer!

Emergency! Emergency!

By the way, I've had this problem before (with IE6), but I can't reproduce it.

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The_Red_Hawk
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Schik wrote:
Has anyone else ever had this problem?

I certainly haven't, and I don't think anyone else has either.

Can you download stuff that's not from DROD? How about putting the stuff in a different folder?

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Mattcrampy
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I've had this problem with pretty much every large file on the forum, which is a shame, because I've missed out on some really cool things.

I'm using Firefox, although I haven't tried downloading anything big since I started using it instead of Firebird.

I think there might be a problem with file endings - as I remember, the files download, but they're corrupted somewhere along the line. Of course, that might be a red herring.

Matt

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Scott
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Well I am using firebird here and haven't had any problem downloading any files.

Schik
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Can everyone who's had problems please try downloading a larger file again? I've made some changes, and it seems to have helped Mattcrampy, my test subject.

Let me know either way...


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Avon
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Schik wrote:
Can everyone who's had problems please try downloading a larger file again? I've made some changes, and it seems to have helped Mattcrampy, my test subject.

Let me know either way...

It worked! It really worked! Thanks Schik!

Now I can squander the rest of the day playing DRODer!

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Schik
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Awesome. I can't believe something like this slipped by for so long...

This kind of problem - a show stopper - will generally be high priority for me. If you've mentioned things like this that I didn't see, forgot, or ignored, feel free to PM me or just make another post to remind me.

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