Stuck at decoding!

[schweitzer]

I am using alt.binz with Ngroups.NET and one of every 5 files I download gets stuck at decoding and must be redownloaded!  How do I fix this?

[Rdl]

Look at log for decoding errors. It's probably your avp software

[ody55ey]

I am using alt.binz with Ngroups.NET and one of every 5 files I download gets stuck at decoding and must be redownloaded!  How do I fix this?

I use NGroups too with no such problems. So I'm in agreement with RDL that it is something else.

[schweitzer]

What is avp?  antivirus?

[kC_]

yep possibly...

try to add the altbinz tempfolder as an excluded directory within your antivirus program...

by the way, what antivirus program do you use?

[schweitzer]

I am using Windows Vista (program is set to compatibility mode for XP SP2) and have Avast! Antivirus.

[schweitzer]

I tried it on an XP computer and it never froze at decoding.  
Do any of the developers have Vista?

[arie13373]

I have the same problem that decoding hangs very randomly some times for hours everything goes OK

And then  i got in a half hour 5 hanging decodings

it doesn't matter if i'm behind the computer and use the cpu proces a lot or i'm sleeping

here is a log

13-4-2007 21:02:30] [T1] Article started 80/82 (lotr12) [044/103] - "lotr12.part043.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:02:30] [T2] Article finished 79/82 lotr12.part043.rar
[13-4-2007 21:02:30] [T2] Article started 81/82 (lotr12) [044/103] - "lotr12.part043.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:02:39] [T1] Article finished 80/82 lotr12.part043.rar
[13-4-2007 21:02:39] [T1] Article started 82/82 (lotr12) [044/103] - "lotr12.part043.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:02:41] [T2] Article finished 81/82 lotr12.part043.rar
[13-4-2007 21:02:41] [T2] Article started 1/82 (lotr12) [045/103] - "lotr12.part044.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:02:48] [T1] Article finished 82/82 lotr12.part043.rar
[13-4-2007 21:02:49] [T1] Article started 2/82 (lotr12) [045/103] - "lotr12.part044.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:02:51] [T2] Article finished 1/82 lotr12.part044.rar
[13-4-2007 21:02:51] [T2] Article started 3/82 (lotr12) [045/103] - "lotr12.part044.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:02:59] [T1] Article finished 2/82 lotr12.part044.rar
[13-4-2007 21:02:59] [T1] Article started 4/82 (lotr12) [045/103] - "lotr12.part044.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:03:01] [T2] Article finished 3/82 lotr12.part044.rar
[13-4-2007 21:03:01] [T2] Article started 5/82 (lotr12) [045/103] - "lotr12.part044.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:03:02] [Dec] Exception Cannot open file "E:\Program Files\AltBinz\download\lotr12\altbin.temp". Het proces heeft geen toegang
tot het bestand omdat
het bestand door een ander proces wordt gebruikt
[13-4-2007 21:03:02] [Dec] Firstpart=1;NumOfParts=82;Encoding=Yenc;Outputdir=E:\Program Files\AltBinz\download\lotr12;OutputdirExists;Size=54091392;Expandingfile;FreeSpace=33985036288;TempFileCreated;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;
13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28;29;30;31;32;33;34;35;36;37;38;39;40;41;42;43;44;45;46;47;48;
[13-4-2007 21:03:09] [T1] Article finished 4/82 lotr12.part044.rar
[13-4-2007 21:03:09] [T1] Article started 6/82 (lotr12) [045/103] - "lotr12.part044.rar" yEnc
[13-4-2007 21:03:14] [T2] Article finished 5/82 lotr12.part044.rar
[13-4-2007 21:03:14] [T2] Article started 7/82 (lotr12) [045/103] - "lotr12.part044.rar" yEnc


is there a way to restart or manualy do the encoding of that (in this case part 43)

because it's still in my temp folder

[bodar]

Also decoding problems. Ten files will go fine and the next will hang on decoding. The frame disappears and only the text decoding remains.
Is there anyway to restart decoding

[Rdl]

Decoding stoped cause avp software was holding that file. There is an bug in public 0.24.1 that prevents restart of decoding process (most likely if you have few files for decoding and you restart alt.binz you end up with empty queue.

[bodar]

Thanks RDL you're right, at restart all the files were gone and I had to download again. I've shut down the automatic process and manually  quickpar the files.

[schweitzer]

I disabled my par checking but it still does it!  What other automatic processes are there?  When will this be fixed?

[arie13373]

I have zonealarm and checked in program control - programs- par2.exe as trusted and for the last 12 gb (around 200 decodings) none of the decoding hangs

[MrMax]

If You dont have admin privilations set in Vista you can not put youre  temp or download folder in %windir%\programfiles just because the program will not have the writing\execute premission.

just put youre temp and download folders on youre main disk or somewhere else but not in the default setup directory.

better is even to let alt.binz install in a different folder other than a system folder.

...MrMax