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Old July 11th, 2005, 02:52 AM
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Probably this corrupted zip files are connected with the time interval of ending/starting the game turn and zip/unzip the files. From my experience it is better to wait 3 seconds before transferring game files to zip folders and the opposite. I know... it is weird!!

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Thanx for all replies guys...Will zip the files from now on...cheers MD
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Yes,

Probably this corrupted zip files are connected with the time interval of ending/starting the game turn and zip/unzip the files. From my experience it is better to wait 3 seconds before transferring game files to zip folders and the opposite. I know... it is weird!!

cheers,
Pyros
even zip files can have problems. I sent Don some game files zipped up the other day - the thing opened up at his end as "contens text streamed" and loads of garbage.

I rezipped the files at this end and resent, and the zip worked perfectly the next time.

So probably some sort of data transmission corruption. No idea what - the internet transfer process, the email packages (at both ends) or say the anti-virs software 9at both ends). That was the first tim in 1000's of zipped files over 5+ years that I recall this happening.

The cure is to rezip (if zipped) and resend the files, it seems if you have some sort of transmission corruption.

Also - if you are getting this sort of thing, you may have disk errors, so probably a good idea to run scandisk on the drive to find any such lost clusters.


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cheers Andy will do!!
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