AAGH! i just lost a 500mb download on kazaa! HELP!

[uk_vcd]

My computer crashed and i was forced to restart whilst downloading cky3, of which i had 400 mb of 450, and seeing as how im on a standard 56kbps dial up modem i was very near to completeing the file which i have been downloading for several days now. I am running kazaa lite on windows xp pro.

Is there any possible way to recover this file? i dont see how a 400mb file can just disappear in a restart?

Please help!!!!! any answers greatly appreciated!

[nfl2k2]

what do you mean when you say "crashed"

hard drive faliure or formatted?
computer just shut down accidently?
you gotta give more info.

[Craig Tucker]

If all you did was reboot, the file should still be there, restart kaaza and it should continue downloading from where it left off.

Craig

[snipez]

hahahahhhahah

you deserve to lose the file


kazza suckz a$$


go get WinMX

[wee haggis]

The .dat will still be in your download file waiting to be resumed.
Make sure your Tools > Options > Traffis > Download file is correct.

oh...and snipez <'I'd rather have Kazaalite anyday(even with its faults) than crappy WinMx.
I used Winmx along with all the others when file sharing first surfaced (Napster,Bearshare,Limewire etc) .To actaully get connected to someone that is'nt queued a mile long,is near to impossible.Kazaa might not be the fastest ,but at least you get connected.
I have a high speed modem and while I type this I have the download limit by-passed and d\l'ing 58 files with no probs.

[uk_vcd]

sorry, i forgot this post was here lol

anyway: i just restarted the pc normally, because it had become slow for some reason, and i didnt pause the download. when i come back on, its gone. i looked for the .dat file in my downloads folder and it was not there. 450mb just disappeared in a restart.

I warn anybody using kazaa lite the pause thier downloads before you restatrt or turn off your computer - even if its never happened to you before. its very annoying!

[wee haggis]

To be honest uk_vcd ,I've done over 200 encodes and conversions and have about 230 files in progress on Kazaalite and I've never lost any or had to pause it or anything.

[rplant]

Damn, that really sucks. I guess that since the .dat file was gone, you couldn't restore your download? Ouch. Earlier today, I deleted a .dat file for a video clip by mistake when I was copying/pasting/changing the extension to preview it. Sucked ass.

[Craig Tucker]

Why did'nt you just restore it from the recycle bin.

Craig

[rplant]

Why did'nt you just restore it from the recycle bin.

Craig

I don't think it would have gone to the Recycle Bin: Kazaa deleted it, he didn't; when you cancel a download, the in progress .dat file doesn't go to the Recycle Bin, it just gets permanently deleted.

[Craig Tucker]

Actually my question was aimed at your previous post.

Craig

[rplant]

Actually my question was aimed at your previous post.

Craig

Haha... nice. Didn't think of that. I always shift+delete everything... I don't know why. It's pretty dumb, but I do it. My left and right ring fingers are mapped to shift and delete, and my right index handles y. I almost never have problems with it, and usually it just saves time and HD space, but sometimes I do stupid things like what I said above. Thanks for the quote this last post... I obviously need them