Curse of the Disappearing Files (Kazaa Lite K++)

[mandysopranina]

There is something really wrong going on with Kazaa Lite K++. My downloads, upon completion, don't appear in the shared folder. Searching the entire hard drive doesn't help; it's like they never existed. This doesn't happen to MP3s, just larger files such as avi or wmv.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it?

[Cydor]

Get over Kazaa crap already, download "Ares" and your problems will be solved. I'm surprised people still use Kazaa, i guess they like fake files and getting sued by RIAA.

My answer to you is "Ares" No Fake files no RIAA up your ass all the time.

Good Luck to you!

[hawkburn]

Nice job Cydor... your getting to be our #1 spammer. This person did not want to know that Ares is better, it might not even be, that is YOUR opinion. This person is asking where his/her files went, and not that it wouldnt happen with your fanboy program.


That said... all I could say is to try to search your hard disk(s) for *.avi or *.wmv, for the file names, respectively. Using * will search for anything that has that file extension...

[The Hunter]

Cydor, you can consider this a warning about your spamming, as i have been noticing this also.

[Kf7avenger]

It's Happened B4 2 my friends He had the same Problem I checked out his Pc and Found out it was His Hard drive It want Just happening on KazaA Lite ++ But also On Imesh Light His Hard Drive is about 5 years old He never scanned his computer Run Hard drive test My friend Messed up his Drive By Never Defragmenting for Year's U might want 2 start defragmenting cuz That Casues DAta
loss File Corruption etc... I don't know exactly how old is you’re hard drive Wether u defragmented or if You dont take care of ure Pc then that’s the Problem. Another of my friends He doesn't know bout Pc's so they called me up i checked it and when u do a Regular click on
The Icons will Multiply And Nottin would work and click on some Files it would Create Shortcuts and would delete the whole files Just 2 find out he had a Virus so i don't Know U might want 2 check that Out I don't know if this info might b helpful is Not then Disgard It

[shawners]

My suggestion would be to look in your shared folder in the kazaa program, see where your files should be going in the settings, and playing them, or looking at the media content inside of that program. It could be a hard drive.. Let us know if anything further can be done to assist you. =)

[Malicious Intent]

I find this happens sometimes, particularly with porn which is odd. Often it appears after shutting down and reloading kazaa, failing that, rebooting the PC. How long have you waited for the file to appear?

[rctempire]

I had this problem.
Solution was - install kazaa lite again and it should help

[thongsai]

did u switch ur download folder while the files were downloading?

[Ea$y_E]

the problem with the files not appearing right away is not just the hard drive its the fast track client as well.

when a file is retrieved from the network it is 100% fragmented, since the program is busy either swarming from multiple sources or "searching more" or just plain doing something abnormal it doesn't issue a higher priority to adjust/update its retrieved content therefore leaving the file as a .dat file as opposed to what its really supposed to be. the easy fix would be to restart the client so it can update its content before doing anything else.

[CTC Command]

I had at one time noticed a lag in the switchover from .dat to .mp3 once something had finished downloading. It hasn't happened in while though, and it was only w/mp3's, since I rarely bother with mpgs or avis since I'm on dial-up and it takes F O R E V E R. . . I haven't been using KZ much lately, but the last time I did, a couple of days ago, everything switched over just fine. Quite possible the file could be fragmented, especially if it took you a bunch of times to get it all downloaded. Try defragging your hard drive, and if worse comes to worse, you can always rename the stubborn .dat file, if you can figure out which one it is. I've done that with partial files that sat there for months and I wanted to get a sample from for loops, or partial downloads of entire albums that crapped out; I have rescued a couple of entire songs from .dat limbo.

Try this, if restarting the client or defrag doesn't work. Copy the .dat file you suspect is the one you want to another folder. If it was a an .avi for example, rename it " whatever.avi " and if it was the correct .dat it should play. Don't rename it from the original, because if you get the wrong one and you don't have the correct 57 digit .dat name to put it back, it'll get hung up.

[Kevin06906]

Maybe if you go to Options and then hit "Find Media to share" and then uncheck the folder that you share and then you re-check it again...maybe it will search through that folder and find it.

[Empire]

Kazaa Lite might have a back door that lets people delete files. That's what the evidence seems to indicate.

[phalkon30]

Kazaa Lite might have a back door that lets people delete files. That's what the evidence seems to indicate.
Troll

Are you previewing the files while they're downloading? I've heard that if a file is being previewed when it finishes, sometimes it won't convert the file from the .dat to the .whatever

Are the .dat files going away too?

[fireforce555]

Troll

Are you previewing the files while they're downloading? I've heard that if a file is being previewed when it finishes, sometimes it won't convert the file from the .dat to the .whatever

Are the .dat files going away too?



Yup that happens alot to me. Usually if I try to preview a downloading video it will remain a .dat after it completes. I have to shut down and restart kazaa and it immediately names the files correctly.

[ATLien]

This has happened to me, on rare occasions, but what I found is that to file doesn't go to the "My Shared Folder", it goes to the shared folder in the directory it self.
It tends to do that after I take a partial file that I have moved, and continue to download it The file ends up every time in the folder in the directory, and the file is never lost. :gj

[Malicious Intent]

Your suggestions all fit in with my experiences too. I change my download folder away from one which isn't shared on my LAN when downloading porn...

[rctempire]

LOL trust u malicious

[mandysopranina]

Ok, to answer a few inquiries, suggestions, and assumptions that were made in response to my problem:

-The computer is 2 years old.
-Yes, I take care of it. I defrag once a week or every other week, depending on how much my brother has downloaded/installed/uninstalled. He is the main file sharer. I also run Norton System Works, which has a disk doctor and a WinDoctor among other things.
-Yes, I have tried Ares. There aren't enough sources for the particular series I am downloading.
-No, a full system search does not find the missing files.
-Yes, the .dat files also disappear.
-No, I don't tend to preview the .avi files because it sometimes causes them to glitch.
-No, I wasn't downloading porn. (Hello?)
-No, refreshing the shared folder doesn't help. That was the first thing I tried.
-Yes, the folder is directed properly, but some of the .dat files are from the previous Kazaa shared folder (from when we changed over) so, yes, the .dat files had been moved. (If this is the problem, my brother is going to lose a very big movie download and will officially kill me.) :shoot

I will try re-installing Kazaa Lite K++ and hope for the best.

Thanks for the input,
Mandy S.

[sra_savage]

I have a quite annoying problem..... my shared folder works fine... but they just stay in .dat format, forever... when i try renaming the file and changing the extension, it says the source file is in use, it takes like 4 full 24 hour days for just a 3 min song to change to what it is supposed to be, i have put up with this b.s. for 2 long, can anybody help me.......

[goldcomet]

If you were previewing the file while it was reaching the end it won't go to the supposed filename when done. All I do is shut down the previewer and re start K-Lite. In a min or so it then changes to the proper filename. And yes I still use Kazaa Lite at times.

[KLITETOOLS]

Ok, to answer a few inquiries, suggestions, and assumptions that were made in response to my problem:

-The computer is 2 years old.
-Yes, I take care of it. I defrag once a week or every other week, depending on how much my brother has downloaded/installed/uninstalled. He is the main file sharer. I also run Norton System Works, which has a disk doctor and a WinDoctor among other things.
-Yes, I have tried Ares. There aren't enough sources for the particular series I am downloading.
-No, a full system search does not find the missing files.
-Yes, the .dat files also disappear.
-No, I don't tend to preview the .avi files because it sometimes causes them to glitch.
-No, I wasn't downloading porn. (Hello?)
-No, refreshing the shared folder doesn't help. That was the first thing I tried.
-Yes, the folder is directed properly, but some of the .dat files are from the previous Kazaa shared folder (from when we changed over) so, yes, the .dat files had been moved. (If this is the problem, my brother is going to lose a very big movie download and will officially kill me.) :shoot

I will try re-installing Kazaa Lite K++ and hope for the best.

Thanks for the input,
Mandy S.
your problem is this:

the dat files you have from the other pc have a different path stored in them then the path for the new shared folder.

open all dat files with k-dat and change and make sure they all have the path of the new "my shared folder".

or put a "my shared folder" in the exact place that the old one use to be,(in this case its okay to have 2 "my shared folder" since the one you are making manualy is there only to recive the finish dat files from the old pc

[YWD67]

I had this problem.
Solution was - install kazaa lite again and it should help

I agree. My system did it twice and I reloaded the program and it corrected the problem. It appears that the Kazaa lite program became corupted some how when I shut it down after using it. The files that I downloaded when I restarted it the next time where sent to a totaly differnt file that I had to search for. It might be a glitch in the new K lite version, since I have went back to an older version I have not had the problem since.

[WRFan]

maybe your completed files folder resides on another partition, if that's the case and if there is not enough space on that partition, kazaa will try to move the file from the temp folder to the completed files folder, but since there is not enough space there, it will fail, but nevertheless delete the temp file too

[KLITETOOLS]

what temp folder?? no version of klite has a temp folder.

if your dat files got deleted then they did get corrupt.

if your problem is that some of them had downloaded a bit and then started from zero again, then thats because the source ip in the dat file was a locall ip, in which case when you restart klite it can't connect to that source ip again and it will start from zero.

this normally happens when your source is behind a router and not using kanat

[HacKthePlanet]

Quote: "There is something really wrong going on with Kazaa Lite K++. My downloads, upon completion, don't appear in the shared folder. Searching the entire hard drive doesn't help; it's like they never existed. This doesn't happen to MP3s, just larger files such as avi or wmv."

Yeah this happened to me too. I think that I know why. I have tried many different versions of Kazaa Lite & Kazaa Lite Resurected. Some Nuked my Kazaa installations - I liked some better than others - So I saved the .dat files of the downloads that I wanted to continue to try to score - Re-Installed my favorite version of Kazza Lite (which is 2.4.3 - although I just downloaded 2.4.5.3 which I have to test out) & Move the .Dat files into the "My Shared" folder in the Kazaa Directory. The re-installed Kazaa Lite reconizes the files and resumes downloading. I can understand if what someone said was true & directory info was saved in the .dat files - when it was down downloading & it saw that the old directory didn't exist anymore it would get confused. The files (Yes I admit it was Porn - but I don't see how that is relevant) just disapeered from my HD without a trace!!!

:error

[KLITETOOLS]

guys if the place of the shared folder has changed then your old dat files will disapear. you can't keep changing directories without changing the path in the dat fiels

[HacKthePlanet]

How do you check the destination directory of .Dat files in dat_view.exe - I don't see it?!!!

[KLITETOOLS]

How do you check the destination directory of .Dat files in dat_view.exe - I don't see it?!!!

open k-dat and it should automatically show you the shared folder contents, if not then just point the drop down menu on the top left to where the folder you want to view is.

the best thing and easiest in these cases is to just creat a shared folder in the same place that the old one was and just wait for the old dat files to finish, later you can delet it.

you will have 2 "my shared folder" on your pc for while, one is your current one and the other is the one you are going to put exactly where the old one used to be, which is perfectly fine.


ofcourse if you don't have the same drives then go ahead and edit with k-dat

[ssdoll]

Kazaa Lite might have a back door that lets people delete files. That's what the evidence seems to indicate.

I left Kazaa Lite running while I was out for the weekend. When I returned to check the progress of my downloads, I found that I was missing at least 130 mp3's. All the files alphabetically from A to download.dat disappeared. These are files which have been in my shared folder for some time, not recent downloads. I searched thru my entire computer & there's no trace of them (not even in recycle bin).

Does anyone know where my mp3's went, or if there is any way to get them back?

[Watchmen]

okay maybe the files when completed were moved to the original path stored in the dat file.
example:
say my download path was d:\my shared folder and I backed up the dat files and resumed them later in a new location such as c:\my shared folder.

So say the download completes with the dat files in the new location (C:\my shared folder instead of the original location that they were started in which was D:\my shared folder)

Its possible the dat files may still be in C:\my shared folder completed only they didn't get renamed to whatever.avi or something...or maybe they got moved to the original path's location (stored in the dat file its self) of 'D:\my shared folder' where they may or may not be either as dat files or at the filename.whatever it should be.

I don't have that much experience with this problem and do wonder if its possible for the files to be deleted due to the original path location not existing or being present on the machine you are using to finish your download.

I'm not sure what role (if any) the various klite mods would play in this. I wonder if one of them has some weird bug that causes it to delete the file if the dat file is resumed in any othe folder besides the original one it was started in?

[Watchmen]

yowser! just looked at the original date this thread was posted...mandy do u even post here anymore? was ur problem resolved?

[NORMNELL]

normnell here.


how do i find kazza lite K +++
thanks

[rainbowdemon]

Old thread . And nobody uses Kazaa anymore.


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