Files downloading normally, but status bar remains 0%, no file appears

[Rdl]

I think, decoding is working!

If file stays on 'Decoding' and you never see progress or file disappearing from queue after decoded - then no, decoding is not working.

[Belo79]

Hello everyone,
i have the same issue.
When i download a file, the progress is still 0%, but the download is working.
After the download i must restart AltBinz to extract the file.

Sorry for my bad english :-)

Greetings from Germany

[Venerot]

I have tried different versions but decoding just doesn't work anymore. The program is unusable for me at the moment. The strange thing is that it has always worked great! The different versions of the program have not changed. Could it be a Windows update that is causing the malfunction? Just my 2 cents...

The problem is that I cannot reproduce decoding problem myself. My main download machine is on win7 that hasn't been updated for at least 6-7 months. Development machine is on win10 that gets updated regularly. Both do not have problem with decoding.
Most of you are on win10 I pressume, but I've seen the problem on win8(.1?) machine.

Yes, my machine runs on Windows 10 1809 (17763.475) the latest update. I think it has to do with an update of Windows because it always worked perfectly!Decoding is not working. Sometimes it works for the first or first and second downloaded file and then it stops. This never goes on. Usually it didn't start at all. The download in the temp folder will continue as normal.The download progress indicator remains at zero even though it downloads all files in the temp folder. Perhaps Alt.Binz counts download, encoded / par ok as progress? Nothing else happens. After a restart of Alt.Binz, he encodes everything, checks the par and unpacks as normal. Hopefully the problem is clear now. If I have some time this week I will run an older version of Windows 10 in VMware Workstation to see if it works there. Hopefully I can help a little bit.Thank you very much for your efforts!

[Rdl]

I am on 17763.437 with latest update and without decoding problem.
If anyone manages to make VMWare VM with existing decoding problem it would help if I could get it

[Rdl]

Has anyone tried to run altbinz with compatibility mode?

[Venerot]

Has anyone tried to run altbinz with compatibility mode?

Just when I had found a way to install each update separately in VMware (WU will go almost immediately to the last one) to find the relevant KB I just tried compatibility mode ....It's working! :)I now run Alt.Binz in compatibility mode for Windows 7 and everything works perfectly again. Encoding also goes as it should.Can someone else with this problem give it a try?

[Rdl]

Has anyone tried to run altbinz with compatibility mode?

Just when I had found a way to install each update separately in VMware (WU will go almost immediately to the last one) to find the relevant KB I just tried compatibility mode ....It's working! :)I now run Alt.Binz in compatibility mode for Windows 7 and everything works perfectly again. Encoding also goes as it should.Can someone else with this problem give it a try?

Please, try to reproduce error without compatibility mode in VM

[Venerot]

Has anyone tried to run altbinz with compatibility mode?

Just when I had found a way to install each update separately in VMware (WU will go almost immediately to the last one) to find the relevant KB I just tried compatibility mode ....It's working! :)I now run Alt.Binz in compatibility mode for Windows 7 and everything works perfectly again. Encoding also goes as it should.Can someone else with this problem give it a try?

Please, try to reproduce error without compatibility mode in VM

I did some testing.Started with the release build October 2018 (1809 17763.1) Alt.Binz is ok.
To prevent WU from getting the latest update, I use "wushowhide" https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3183922/how-to-temendid-prevent-a-windows-update-from-reinstalling- in-windo

After the first manuel update kb4464330 (17763.55) everything still works fine. Then I think this will take a long time and decides to go to your current build.
After update kb4493509 (17763.437) everything works well.
After the update kb4501835 (17763.439) everything works fine.
After update kb4495667 (17763.475) everything works fine.
After the update kb44944441 (17763.503) everything works just fine.

So no, I cannot reproduce the problem in a virtual machine ....

[Pressies]

i have tried the alt.binz.exe with compatibility mode WIN7 ... it is the same result....no decoding files.

[Signum]

Compatibly mode Windows 7 works fine . Download and decode of monkeyfiles now ok. i think it was an MS Update.

ty for the helpful discussion here

cu

[ProFumi]

Hi,

Since a few days I have a new computer and I am having problems downloading an NZB file with Altbinz. some files remain Status Decoding, if I close Altbinz and restart it, it will continue. If I then check .par files, he says that half of them are missing and I cannot restore them. Have never had this problem.

[yemaozi]

I ran into this problem too.

Actually I was running an old version 0.44.3 but started having problems with it hanging on the login check at startup so decided to try upgrading to 0.46.0.5. That fixed the login hang, but then started this problem.

What would happen is maybe 1 file like a small .par2 would download and decode fine, then all the other files would be stuck in "Decoding" mode and never complete. I would exit altbinz and run it again and the files would all start going through Decoding after restart.

As suggested by some of the posters here, I tried setting altbinz to run in Windows 7 compatibility mode and that has solved the problem for me.

[Rdl]

Here is link to a test version. Post results if this version solves problem.
https://www.altbinz.net/forum/new-alt-binz-versions/test-version-for-decoding-stuck-problem/

[Pressies]

IT WORKS FINE 

great job, Rdl !

[Venerot]

Yes, it works perfectly! It seems to be solved. Thank you very much for your effort again.