filmogriter Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Hi all, With my current attempt to migrate to P3D I am trying to download updated installers and traffic for my orbx products. No matter what computer I download the files from and no matter which program I use to attempt to unzip the files I get an error telling me the files are invalid. Anyone else experiencing this and is there a solution? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Firstly what are you attempting to extract them with, Please do not tell me the inbuilt compression tool in Windows, I have stated this on a number of occasions but will repeat myself .1 For RAR files use WinRAR 2 For WinZIP Files use WinZip 3 For 7Zip Files use 7Zip Yes I know these programs are supposed to be compatible but they are not, end of discussion - I do so much online assistance with racing communities and Compression tools incompatibility is the biggest problem. Never use WinRAR for WinZip files and vice versa and not the inbuilt tool in Windows as that WILL end in disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvs193 Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Yes, a number of other people have mentioned the same problem. I've had it myself. The files are invalid because they haven't completely downloaded. I tried a few free downloading programs but the only one that's worked consistently so far is DownThemAll, a Firefox plugin which others have recommended. All my downloads so far have worked. Seems very reliable to me, give it a try, it's free. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museumkeeper Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Hi Filmogriter I began my time with Orbx last year downloading and using Windows 8 and the inbuilt tool. I am now using Windows 8.1 and again the inbuilt tool. I have never had any problem with this method and will continue to use it Kind regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmogriter Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 Thanks for your responses guys. Maurice_King - I have attempted to use various tools to do so but did discover, as mentioned by pvs193, the problem is due to files not downloading completely. JFS - I am running windows 7 pvs193 - I will give that a go thankyou. I have further discovered that if I download from the google server the files download fine. Only problem is not many of them are hosted there! Again guys, thank you for your responses! Sean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Having the large files broken down into manageable segments would help a lot, and it has been my experience that some download manager's while useful tools doesn't necessarily mean you won't have issues extracting with thewrong compression algorithm, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkH Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Same here: for about three weeks now I am not able to download any file from OrbX using the standard Firefox or IE download managers, always a premature stop and/or a corrupt .zip file. Little annoying, but with GetRight, it still works flawlessly. Only glitch: sometimes you have to restart the download, because it does not automatically complete the download at the first try. Must be something wrong with the OrbX servers, never had this issue before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Hi Filmogriter, try with Internet download manager, it's the best solution you can have to avoid bad downloads. It's very fast too, generally it allows you to download at the highest speed your connection can sustain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Howarth Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Maurice is quite correct, in that one not all archive tools are actually bug free in their decompression and two in that browsers do not have full robustness in the download. I personally use free download manager light. The ultimate way to check is to hash sum the file and compare it to a known hash of the file in download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 2 For WinZIP Files use WinZip So which tool was used to make the ZIP archive? Chances are it was not WinZip. Or put another way, why do you suppose a ZIP file made with 7-zip would decompress better with WinZIP, than with the tool that created it? As stated above, a corrupt or incomplete download is the cause. This is due to internet connectivity. Donwload managers help. Deleting corrupt incomplete file-stubs before re-downloading is imperative. The trick is often finding where they are stored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 There are a number or reasons Ian but I still believe that files should be broken down into 100 or 200 Mb blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Hi there, I use IDM and these last days I'm getting corrupted files from FSS trying to download the updated ones for P3D V.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 To be honest the only time i experienced a corrupt download was when the file on the server was corrupted, but i don't think it would be this case Several times depends instead on the program you use to decompress the archive. Until this moment my IDM has had a 100% error free, and i downloaded maybe 100 GB or more from the moment i started to use it. It could depends also on the connection, not all the providers are the same. Some internet speed test has also the lost package checking, like this one, very affordable http://test.ngi.it/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvs193 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 I use IDM and these last days I'm getting corrupted files from FSS trying to download the updated ones for P3D V.2 I haven't used that one, but I tried to download Pacific Northwest using FlashGet (which they recommended) and Free Download Manager, but neither of them worked. They both got up to 99.9% and stopped. Then I tried DownThemAll (Firefox plugin) and it worked. Everything I've downloaded from Orbx since with it has worked too. I recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Depending on the quality / reliability of your internet connection (and all the links between you and the server) it is 'possible' to get corrupt downloads. Like Maurizio, this has not been an issue for me. I can not recall the last corrupt D/L I received, and I just have standard ADSL2+ internet. The key is to hunt down the incomplete file stubs and start again, in my opinion. Changing download managers may work because it abandons the old file stubs, not simply because one download manager is better than another (although some probably are) With regard to unpacking. I exclusively use 64bit executable of 7-Zip for ZIP files. It has been stable for a long time now, and is yet to fail/corrupt a file for me, and certainly has worked on every file I have ever downloaded or uploaded for/from ORBX. I avoid .rar files (I think this is a psychological thing; they seem to be the preferred filetype for dubious sources. Whether rightly or wrongly, my hackles go up when I see an .RAR extension.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceridgey Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I too would like to say I am getting issues downloading ORBX updates etc. Using chrome and winrar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard_S Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I also was unable to unzip a file from the Orbx site downloaded with both IE and Firefox. I downloaded the free 7WA3 airport several times, but it always failed to unzip. My zip program reported the file was corrupted. I discovered the “Orbx Google Drive†download link at the bottom of the 7WA3 “Release Announcements†post, and tried it. 7WA3 downloaded, unzipped, and installed properly. Try downloading with the "Orbx Google Drive" link given in the "Release Announcements" post for your desired file. Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Abdey Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I did not notice this thead and posted here http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/78738-orbx-england-eu-102-update/?p=722452 But, yes, there does seem to be an issue with the files when using the Orbx Patch Server, but not the others... or maybe a browser issue with using this server, as the files do work when using a manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avt309947 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Im using IDM and have downloaded all the new triple installers. All worked well except Scotland which I have now downloaded three times but is still corrupted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvs193 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Im using IDM and have downloaded all the new triple installers. All worked well except Scotland which I have now downloaded three times but is still corrupted. Try DownThemAll Firefox plugin. That's the only one that hasn't failed me yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avt309947 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Thanks for responding. I don't use Firefox and am just puzzled why all files except one should unzip OK. I assume there is a problem with the file though I don't see anybody else having the problem with Scotland. Thanks again Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avt309947 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Just to close this off. I eventually managed to download a clean file by not using any download manager. The windows downloader worked perfectly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkH Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Same here, just recently downloaded FTX NA Northern California, Monterey and Redding using the classic Firefox downloader and all three files had no error and downloaded correctly at the first attempt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gartro Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I have experienced somewhat similar problems over the past month or so, most recently this morning when downloading the most recent Orbxlibs. Out of habit, I have tended to always use the Orbx patch server network option to download the Support patches etc. This morning, when I tried to open the download, I got the cannot be opened/invalid file message. I then tried Orbx Cloud for the download and everything worked fine. Some weeks ago, I had a similar episode where the Orbx patch server resulted in a similar problem. I can't remember whether I then tried the Cloud option or the Google Drive one but things went okay. It seems to me from my experience and the posts which I have read that the Orbx patch server network is the common denominator and that it is of recent months (because I have had not earlier problems in using it over a period of more than two years). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Used IDM for yonks.. sometimes two or three DL at one time..Never had a problem that I recall.. Teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aua668 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Same here - ZIP of library was defect on the patch server but fine on the cloud drive. Rgds Reinhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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