99% glitch?
 

Has anyone else had the program just stop downloading when it hits 99%? Is there a way around this without deleting the .par and resumeinfo.txt files and starting from scratch? The "Status" shows hosts connected, but the download speed is 0.0 and est. time is ??. Seems like it's stuck...

Any ideas? I've tried the obvious, pausing/unpausing, close/restart Xolox. Just wondering id there's a trick I'm missing.

BTW - I'm using Win2k SP2, don't know that it matters.

-pharaoh

This is normal. xolox downloads big files in parts. let it run preferrably overnight and youll see that it will change to 50% or so and continue.

Yeah,

But it went through it's 100%, 50%, 100%, 60% cycle for a few days, and now it's stuck on 99% and has been for the past 2-3 days.

I guess the best thing is just to let it keep going??


Thanks.

-pharaoh

play 99% download
 

I had a download stick at 99% recently, so I went into C:\Program Files\XoloX\temp and figured out which “JOB-Segment.xlx” it was. I then copied the file and changed the filename extension (from xlx to avi) the movie ran fine. The only thing wrong was that most of the ending credits where cut off. If the download ever finishes I will have a second copy of the movie with completed credits.

Yeah good thing for normal MPEG AVIs.

Don't forget Windows Mediaplayer won't play DivX until they finished 100%. But there are tools (e.g. VirtualDub) to "teminate" the uncomplete movie, so that you can play in Windows Mediaplayer. Other DivX player can handle uncomplete DivX on-the-fly... but currently I don't know which can.

There is still a problem if you are downloading a programm. I have tried it several times over nigt, but there is no progress.
Any sugestion?

I finally trashed my incomplete 99% download after 4 days of waiting on it. I re-queued it for download, and it's now going through it's 100%-50%-100%-60% cycle again.

Copying the .JOB and .PAR files and changing extensions is fine with movies or music I suppose, but not so good for ISO's or ZIP's - which need to be complete.

Today it did something really strange too - I left it on, and when I came back it had quit and lost all partial downloads.

Basically, the program works GREAT for little files, mp3s, etc. Fastest gnutella client I've used yet. But for larger files, the segmented downloading isn't up to snuff yet. It drops too much of the file!

Xolox should check every 10% or so to see if the .PAR's can be joined - if not, rollback - that way you only lose at most 10% of your file. No more 50% loss. With a 600MB ISO, it can take forever when it constanly drops half the file....

Just some thoughts. And, if anyone's figured a solution to the 99% thing, let me know. I'm beginning to wonder if ANYONE has a 100% complete file? That would explain why it always stops at 99%, no one out there has that last 1%!! ;)

--pharaoh

I think your problem is with Xolox's synchronisation of file segments - it overlaps the last 2K of every segment with the first 2K of the next segment (excluding the first and last segments of course). If the segments don't match, the part is dropped and downloaded again - unfortunately, if xolox drops the wrong part (ie the correct one), you will end up downloading the same segment incorrectly over and over again (i.e it will never match). Your best bet is to download as much as possible and put the segments together yourself (using a hex viewer or similar, in association with the resumeinfo.txt file which will tell you where each part belongs).
Hope this helps (I've had to do this myself with several files).