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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: rumblebelly on January 28, 2005, 03:21:08 am

Title: getting corrupt file messege please help
Post by: rumblebelly on January 28, 2005, 03:21:08 am

i have been having prob\'s with planeshift and had to uninstall it.
now everytime i download the game and try to install my computer tell\'s me that some file\'s are corrupt.
someone told me that i might have a virus that is reinfecting the file/file\'s but i have ran a check with multiple antivirus program\'s and they all come up clean.
i am thinking that there are file\'s in my computer that don\'t go away when i uninstall the game but i can\'t for the life of me find any .
i\'m not the most computer ilit person so if anyone can give me some advice on what i could or should do please tell me  ?(

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Post by: Diamondcite on January 28, 2005, 03:57:40 am

I am not sure if this is how the windows version works... but have you made sure the planeshift folder was removed after un-install?

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Post by: rumblebelly on January 28, 2005, 01:35:44 pm

i have removed everything i can find  planeshift related in my computer. i could just format my computer but i just went thru that not too long ago and it would be a pain to do it again.
maybe if there was a removal tool out there somewhere i could use then i would try that.

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Post by: Seytra on January 28, 2005, 10:21:07 pm

Sounds like the download manager symptome.
You should check the MD5 sum (available on the DL page, includign a tool for doing so) in order to see if the installer actually is corrupted or if the problem is your computer. If it is corrupted, then try downloading it without a download manager. Might also be a MIME type problem (the browser might think it\'s text, and convert the LF chars to CR+LF, obviously damaging the binary file). Force binary mode if possible.

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Post by: rumblebelly on January 29, 2005, 04:12:04 am

well i still get the corrupt file messege no matter how many time\'s i dl it as for the tool i am not sure about it. i dl then run and i get a quick flash of a black screen then nothing else is this normal?

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Post by: Seytra on January 30, 2005, 08:46:13 pm

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Originally posted by rumblebelly
as for the tool i am not sure about it. i dl then run and i get a quick flash of a black screen then nothing else is this normal?

Yes, it\'s a DOS program. :P

You need to use a DOS window to call it, and to supply the filename to be summed. ;)

Edit: There is also a windows program doing the same thing, which can be found here (http://md5summer.org/). :)

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Post by: Androgos on January 30, 2005, 10:16:40 pm

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Originally posted by Seytra

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Originally posted by rumblebelly
as for the tool i am not sure about it. i dl then run and i get a quick flash of a black screen then nothing else is this normal?

Yes, it\'s a DOS program. :P

You need to use a DOS window to call it, and to supply the filename to be summed. ;)

Edit: There is also a windows program doing the same thing, which can be found here (http://md5summer.org/). :)

It\'s not a DOS program, it just lacks a GUI

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Post by: rumblebelly on February 02, 2005, 04:53:38 am

well ladd\'s thank\'s fer the advice but it was me magic portal that were the problem so i had ta recast the magic needed ta clean her up. now i kin enter any realm that catches me fancy   :D

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Post by: Seytra on February 04, 2005, 12:06:40 am

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It\'s not a DOS program, it just lacks a GUI

Yes, it actually is a \"console application\". Looks like DOS, feels like DOS, but isn\'t, as becomes apparent when trying to run it in plain DOS. Nit-picker! :P
And it was \"DoS\" as in \"denial of service\" for rumblebelly ;) (I know that \"DoS\" is something quite different). :D

@ rumblebelly: Glad that it works now. Another example that shows that magic that comes from certain libraries tends to be susceptible to disruption of it\'s matrices by faulty but unrelated spells. :)