PC crashed, incomplete files not listed in WinMX now

[Corkscrew]

I came home to a locked up PC showing a locked up screen saver (I'm deleting all my screensavers and turning the screensaver option off now). I had left WinMX in the background. Now after rebooting, many of the incomplete files that were in my transfer window, and are still located in my download folder, are not listed in the transfer window anymore. How can I get them back there to resume?

[The Hunter]

did you try clicking on load incomplete?

[don webb]

If you unshare your files, and then open the shared folder again it should pick up the incompletes. Works for me anyway....

[Corkscrew]

Originally posted by The Hunter
did you try clicking on load incomplete?
Actually, that worked. I hadn't noticed that button before. Is the only time they get 'unloaded' (disappear) during a crash?
I noticed it seems the only files that had disappeared were OpenNap files. Why?

[Corkscrew]

After closing WInMX and opening back up, these files had disappeared again, requiring a 'load incomplete files'. Why?

Also none of them can find any sources to start or resume. Why?

[CrAzYMaNiAk54]

Press Find more sources or even go and search for the file again, it will appear in a different color, you will just have to double click on it and the sources in the search will be added =)

[serrebi101]

You actualley got a download on open nap! Lol, but seriusly, opennap doesn't have an autoresume feature like the win mx network does. So just press load incomplete, and there they are again, just like someone said above, to lazy to look.

[Corkscrew]

Originally posted by CrAzYMaNiAk54
Press Find more sources or even go and search for the file again, it will appear in a different color, you will just have to double click on it and the sources in the search will be added =)
The 'Find more sources' option isn't avaiable for OpenNap files.

So I guess if I have files listed in the xfer window that are OpenNap files, there's no way to get it started without just going to the Search window and doing a search on them again.?

[Galileo]

Yes, opennap works much better than the wpn.

If you had opennap files, it's so easy.

Opennap downloads much faster than the winmx wpn.

Click Load incompletes, then point your mouse to the opennap download, and pick FIND ALTERNATES, then winmx even highlights the identical files in yellow. Just click and you're on your way.

Quite simple. Works really well.

Good luck.

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Frankly I hate opennap servers....

With Winmx, there is no auto complete where it would automaticaly search for sources when you got on, you have to do it manually at first...(although soon with the new version there will be auto complete)

I dont know much about opennap because I never used it but I heard it doesn't have multi source downloading? Wow, if that's the case what is the point of downloading something big on opennap servers?
I might be wrong though

[Galileo]

Hehe, I always have to laugh at those who don't use opennap because they 'read' or 'heard' that it doesn't multisource.

opennap does. in fact, the lopster client and dagsta multisource over opennap. It's winmx that doesnt. But anyway, that doesn't matter. While you timid ones are downloading with your multisource adding 4K, 9K, and 21K users on your WPN to get a total of 34K multisourced, I'm downloading huge files over opennap at 380+Kb/sec from a *single* user.

Not to mention finding thousands of files in search that you'll never see.

Opennap has Auto-Retry in winmx, which the WPN does not. And opennap has Resume, too. I've seen people carryon saying opennap has no resume, too, lol. It's right there. Opennap has had resume since the Napster days. Years. And as far as continuing after you've shut down and restarted winmx, that's really easy too. Just Pick Search For Similar. That's it. Winmx even highlights the matches right there in YELLOW for you. Double click one and it'll resume right where you left off earlier. Remember... with all these programs and protocols and "Frankly I hate....blah blah blah" You're gettin all this FOR FREE!

opennap (the protocol) is good. It's derived from Napster. However some opennap server owners are jerks. Forcing people to join chatrooms, kicking people off, banning them, setting their servers to block people and limiting browses, keeping general users from logging in all the while letting in their friends, etc. Just as bad as Neomodus DirectConnect's hub owners. It's the people. Not the protocol. The protocol's good.

But opennap is faster. And since the timid ones are put off by that statement ' For expert users only ' in winmx, usually the ones who are on it are more knowledgeable users with more powerful computers, and more prevalent T1 and T3 lines.

But anyway, keep usin your WPN. If you come out with a statement about it declaring stuff about it, and then just below that you say you've never even tried it, we know about where the statement's comin' from. lol.

"Frankly, I hate..."
...people who say stuff, without even knowing about it first. :-P

[Galileo]

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Serrebi: "Lol, but seriusly, opennap doesn't have an autoresume feature like the win mx network does. "
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Yes it does. Use search for similar. (It's Resume, not autoresume, by the way. Even the Regular winmx WPN does not have any 'autoresume' either you know, you have to pick Load incompletes and then if the status is blank, you have to pick Find Sources now. By 'autoresume' which is not quite the right term, I assume you're talking about AFS or in other words, auto find sources. Winmx's WPN has FSN and AFS. whereas Opennap has Auto-Retry and Search for Similar.)

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Corkscrew:
"The 'Find more sources' option isn't avaiable for OpenNap files.

So I guess if I have files listed in the xfer window that are OpenNap files, there's no way to get it started without just going to the Search window and doing a search on them again.?"
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Corky, like I said above, yes, there is. You can.

After you rebooted or whatever, and open winmx again, and re-connected to your opennaps, click LOAD INCOMPLETES, and on the opennap only ones, just right click and pick Search for Similar. Perfect matches are in YELLOW. Double click one and it will resume. Voila.

(Note: the two protocols are different, so there are advantages and disadvantages to both of them. They are just different tools for you to use, and the more tools the better. For instance, note that above it's not ADDING additional sources onto the opennap download, as in the Find Sources Now option for the WPN, but you can do things with the opennap Search for Similar that you can't do with the FSN on the WPN. For instance, if you have a large file and you want to resume downloading, you can do many things. First, since the HOTLIST on opennap is permanent, you can get back to that very same user you were downloading from before. If he's on, his name will turn from red to GREEN on your hotlist, and you can browse him, get that same file, and resume. Second, you can say Search for Similar, then click to engage the downloading on ALL of the matches! So you get like 30 of them going in transfers. Then just look and see which one is going fastest. Cancel the rest, and then resume your partial file from THAT guy. I do it all the time and I get really high speeds that way. Since I can actually see it, and choose it myself, I know I've got a good source that will guaranteed connect, and also be the fastest. With the Find Sources Now, you can't pick a specific source, you just get what winmx gives you, could be slow, could be Queued, might TimeOut, might never connect at all. So you've got about 10 sources, all of which are Queued or dead, and you're not going anywhere. But anyway, I use them both. They are both tools to use, and each has its advantages. You don't go around saying that this screwdriver sucks because you can't pound a nail in with it, or the hammer stinks because it doesn't have a + phillips point on it anywhere. Use all the tools that are available, each has it's nice points, and pretty soon you'll have built yourself a nice collection.)

[Corkscrew]

Gali, thanks, but not sure why you answered my question twice when I only asked once. In fact, you said close to the same thing in 3 posts.

[Galileo]

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