ShareAza is behaving crappy

[prathapml]

Q:

ShareAza has downloaded an important file I need to the extent of 90%, and then stopped! Do you people experience this too? If so, how can I solve this situation?

Details:

Well, I started download of 3 big files on ShareAza yesterday. Two of them landed on my HD safely. But the 3rd one is protesting.

This file which I'm downloading is 675 MB in size, and 610 MB is through - just about 60 MB left. I was previously getting the file merrily at 11 KBps. There are more than 500 sources (according to it), and not one seems to be giving me the download continuation - despite me being connected to 6 hubs (G2,G1,ed2k). All of these sources are on eDonkey (don't know how, since there were some G2 sources also previously, but not now). It is stuck at this position since 5 hours - status is "Active/pending", speed is "0 b/s". Occasionally, it gets off the couch and starts enumerating the sources (saying "12 of 531" sources active, "47 of 531", etc.) - but to no avail, as there's no activity after that. I experienced this before too, but those were 2 or 3 MB downloads, so I could start over - but not this one

This is not a pirated software download, so don't let your imagination run wild!

[prathapml]

I know that with all the experts we have here, many of you people would have seen this problem, so you'd know what to do.

Help needed as urgently as possible.

Thanking you all in advance for reading this and for your suggestions.

[mazin]

reading ~~~~~~ suggestions

I'll be among the first team.

But I should say that it's really painful. However, I'm on 56kb modem. For huge files, like yours, I get them downloaded by a nearby Cyber Cafe. It's even cheaper than home phone charges.

And if downloads are interrupted, so, it's none of my business!

[MCT]

i too am a 56k user (for a few more days, my dsl will be here soon)

do u have sources? if not then it wont download anymore

[prathapml]

500 and more sources, but still..........

[Phyridean]

Try retaining the download (temporary data) file, uninstalling, then reinstalling shareaza, and then placing that file back in the download directory.

Better yet, do a fresh install of shareaza on another computer, copy the file from the one that doesn't work over to the other computer, and then if it doesn't work, you still have the original.

Best of luck.

[MCT]

are the 500 sources active or all full ?

[prathapml]

@Phyridean-

thanx for that idea, I'll try that now. And if that too doesn't work, I'll try retaining the "Incomplete" folder (in ShareAza) alone, and re-install windows and get back on what happened.

@MCT-

All the 500+ sources (639 now ) are fluctuating between the status "Active" and "Pending", and I have enough bandwidth - so I don't think they are refusing to upload to me because I'm too slow! ShareAza repeatedly starts enumerating the sources and then stops before it can go ahead to the next stage (downloading from those which are not too busy to upload) - which is different behaviour than it would normally. The sources couldn't all be busy at the same time, could they? And even if they were, I should have started to get a trickle of download after waiting in queue for a whole night!

In the ShareAza forums, they say that the Gnutella2 network is normally very fast to start giving a download - but if my sources are from eDonkey2000 peers, I can do nothing but suffer a slow download. (slow would be OK) But here I am with *NO* download.

@all

Please keep your suggestions coming. I haven't yet been able to solve this **** problem.

[MCT]

firewall refusing them?

im about outta suggestions lol

[XtremeMaC]

well that happens to me all the time and I cannot dl anything. I think this is because I'm trying to dl lots of files and at some point bc of looking for sources and something. it doesn't do anything. it works if I remove most of the files. (u can just move the files to another folder, move the .sd files as well..)

I've a question though, though I told the program to connect to g2 networks it doesn't connect??? and max number of edonkey networks I'm connected to do is 1. could you tell me how to configure this app for best use?

i'm on 256/32 dsl (sucks but still dsl always online..)

Thanks!

[prathapml]

Well, well....... what do we have here - 3 weeks have passed, and the download still is stuck at the same position.

@XtremeMaC

Set it to connect to 3 G2 hosts, and to 500 e-Donkey clients. Why its not connecting to Gnutella2 for you, is beyond me - but if it begins connecting, let it connect to 3 G2 hosts. And, its not actually the way ShareAza depicts it in "Networks Connected" Tab - you are figuratively "uplinked" via one ed2k peer, and then you are connected to the number of peers you specify (raise it from 200 to 500 as I said above). Then, see the upload queues, and dis-able each of them, except for eDonkey core. Set the eDonkey core upload limit to as low as you want, and select "Maximum" instead of "Average" in the drop-down box below.

The above tweaking raised my down-stream speeds to the max. of my connection's throughput, and also prevented using up bandwidth in providing others the files shared on my HD.

[MCT]

have u got the latest shareaza? 2.0.2.7

[prathapml]

The official download site still talks of v2.0, and I got that months ago.

Is what you are saying, a new release since then?

I went into my installed dir of ShAza, and file-version properties say "2.0.0.0". Is the new version showing that different as you say?

[gabriel_buc]

I have the same problem here.

I have over 250 sources for one file in Shareaza or at least that's what it's reporting. Though I doesn't receive any single bit !!!

All sources are from edonkey network. Even if Shareaza reports over 250 sources for one file practically it's connected to only 10-15 and in all i'm quoed.

I don't think there is something we can do. Just wait to go up in the que and find free slots to get that files.

[prathapml]

I don't think there is something we can do. Just wait to go up in the que and find free slots to get that files.

That's what I was told - but the queue seems TOOOO long. I left my connection and ShareAza up for 3 days at a stretch - still, not one byte had got added to the count.

The most damned thing about this is that it seems to happen only when you are downloading especially large files - it will reach up to 90% transferred, and then stop altogether. After that, the only option I've seen to work was to start it from the beginning separately, again.