Author Topic: Trimming end of file (Read 1440 times)

infrontofputer · « **on:** January 05, 2007, 06:53:21 am »

Hi there everyone happy new year to you all, this issue may have already been covered ihavent found a thread on it yet.Winmx shut down while i was downloading a movie file due to some sort of error while i was sending an e-mail, anyway i have trimed around 500 k from the end of file and im still haveing issues with it not increasing in size even though im connected and trading it just wont increase in size how much do i need to trim from end of the file its a large file i have 750 MB so far so im not keen to delete it and start again any help would be very much appreciated cheers Richard

Bearded Blunder · « **Reply #1 on:** January 05, 2007, 10:33:45 am »

i seem to remember something about trimming file causing a problem with winmx showing it's current size, i'd recommend looking in windows explorer at the actual file (right click > properties) & check the actual size, if this increases after a period, hopefully all is well.

nylly444 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 05, 2007, 10:39:32 am »

I've often found that you need to clear the file from your transfer window frist and reload again with "load incompletes" afterwards.
I think that makes Winmx read the files size again or something, give it a try, can't hurt

Me Here · « **Reply #3 on:** January 05, 2007, 01:37:26 pm »

hi infrontofputer,

When this is happening to a file there have been times that its nearly impossible to save it and I've had to start over with the download.. but others this tool have worked on. It is necessary to trim the file.. without the end tag anything your adding is just usually corrupted anyway.. so i suggest you trim this file with this tool below, you may find you have to trim to the last place WinMX actually saved and it could be well bigger then the 500 k, in any case trim with this tool small bits as you did with WinMX (the suggested amounts are on the tutorial) until it either works again or its so small starting over doesn't sound bad.

https://www.winmxworld.com/tutorials/trunk_2005.html

Not trying to scare ya, I'm pretty sure with such a large files this trim tool and removing slightly larger increments will work ..

infrontofputer · « **Reply #4 on:** January 05, 2007, 03:32:23 pm »

Cheers for the help guys,downloaded the Trunk file trimed around 3 MB from the end all is well file has continued to increase in size Im a happy camper

Me Here · « **Reply #5 on:** January 05, 2007, 05:29:47 pm »

yay

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #6 on:** January 06, 2007, 03:11:49 am »

Just a suggestion... Preview the section of the file that had the problem to see if the file is ok or not.
If it is not, then you'll find that out only after you have downloaded the whole file.

Cheers

Rokit · « **Reply #7 on:** January 08, 2007, 06:00:59 pm »

hi everyone - I'm not sure if anyone else is aware or had this problem before (or if I'm posting this message in the proper section of WinMX forum) - I tried downloading a file and a message box popped up saying "the total character length of the path of the file you're trying to create is too long" (meaning that the file name was too long in order to be downloaded) - it would be nice if the file name was shorter so we can download them or if anyone can tell me how to get around this - thanks

Example - mary chapin carpenter & shawn colvin - one cool remove (live at kate wolf memorial music festival, black oak ranch, laytonville, ca, 29.6.03).mp3

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #8 on:** January 08, 2007, 06:54:12 pm »

Downlaod a file wth a shorter name.
Or you can manually change the filename as well, via the library.
You can also try to relocate the downloads folder to a shorter loaction
eg
d:\
instead of
d\program files\winmx\downloads
or something like that
windows has a max file size length of 256 characters which includes the path and the extenstion

Cheers