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 Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:48 pm
Yeah I normally stay away from caps lock but this is realy getting under my skin so I'm going to tell you exactly what is happening with my computer. Please if you can hel do so.
So Neo Steam just re-launched and of course I want to play so I found where to download the game program it's self on the site. I go to one of the miror sites it provides and dowload like I would anyother file. This is where my problem lies. For the past few months I have not been able to download anything because I will download it, watch the folder that I have it downloading to and from there it will download normally and it will show up in the folder during the "copying item" process, once again like normal but then afterward the file dissapears and my computer can't find it on a search or anything.
Again this isn't just the Neosteam re-launch it's any item I try to dowload from any site.
Please help me if you know anything or know anyone who would know anything or even if this sounds familiar.
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:30 am
我就是你们女生最讨厌的那种人I'm the kind of guy you girls hate most.Don't go crazy and quote my post style. Quoting what I say is fine, but doing my post style is kind of nuts.
You might want to first try going into your folder settings and checking "Show hidden files and folders." Refresh, and if you still can't find it, use your computer's search function.
Also, if you find them and they were hidden, just go into the item's properties and uncheck hidden... Though it's optional, you can do it if you're going to mark "Do not show hidden files and folders."
I mention this solution because in my younger days, I downloaded a zip of music and didn't know the uploader set it on hidden. But yeah.
If you still can't find it, you may have to ask around on a tech support forum or ask a tech geek who knows too much about this stuff.
I hope you have fun erasing my post style, though.
John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships daddy." Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS" There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons. "This is Joson" the radio crackered. "You must fight the demons!" So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall. "HE GOING TO KILL US" said the demons "I will shoot at him" said the cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill. "No! I must kill the demons" he shouted The radio said "No, John. You are the demons" And then John was a zombie.
对了就是那个臭男孩
That's right, that jerk.
The reason I did this? The more you type, the more gold you get. See, I'm really a jerk. Facts for the lulz of having them: Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m). Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer. Your nails grow faster in outer space, probably because of the lack of gravity. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow down his films for you to see his moves. In Klamath Falls, Oregon, it is illegal to kick the heads off snakes. In Florida, it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal. 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Lastly, honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:51 pm
I'm a tech geek who knows too much about this stuff, but your description of the problem is very vague. What I do get from your description sounds very strange.
1. What web browser are you using? (FireFox, Interent Explorer, Chrome, Opera)
2. Do you let the browser save files to the same folder automatically, or do you have it set so that you pick -where- to save each file, each time?
3. Do you have active and updated anti-virus software?
4. How old is the computer, or more specifically how old is the hard drive?
I ask the last two, because magically disappearing files are usually the victim of one of 3 problems: 1) people not understanding simple folder/file hierarchy and how to look for things on their computer, 2) virus or other malicious software preventing you from downloading so that you can't get rid of them or 3) failing hard drive that sporadically loses data.
Dying hard drive is unlikely, because hard drives don't just give out like short term memory in old people. If your hard drive was dying, you'd be losing things all over. Virus is somewhat likely, but it's fairly rare to encounter one so aggressive that it prevents any sort of downloaded file to be saved -- they would typically only interfere with .ZIP, .EXE, and .MSI file types.
And you seem to know what you're doing for the most part (watching the folder that the file is being downloaded to). I don't think the issue is "show hidden files." This really is a strange problem.
Can you save image files? Like, right click -> Save Image As when in your browser? If you can save image files just fine, but not other files -- particularly large files or files of certain types -- then I'd look into the dying hard drive or virus scenarios.
It's possible that, by extension of hard drive failure or virus infection, your operating system and/or file system have become corrupt. Highly unlikely, but still possible.
EDIT: Actually, it kinda sounds like you have your browser set to automatically pick "Open File" instead of "Save File." When you have it set to open, it only downloads the file to your hard drive long enough to load the file into memory (RAM) and execute it once. That would explain why you saw the incomplete file in your download folder. But if that was happening, you would see some sort of window or program opening up once the download was finished, and that would be very obvious. For example, you'd see the first window of the NeoSteam installation program, or a window displaying the contents of Zip file. If it is this problem, it should be as simple as changing your browser's preferences to always ask you, or to always SAVE to a specific folder.
EDIT EDIT: If you need extra help, I can PM my AIM, Yahoo, or MSN contact name to you and we might be able to figure this out over IMs.
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:11 pm
I am using internet explorer (sadly) on a windows vista system my AVG expired like a little over a month and I've been trying to reinstall but with no luck (coz of my problem which went on before my AVG expired) I also have spybot which I got before I realized it was a virus magnet and don't know how to completely uninstall. I am hugely comouter illiterate aswell so any of those 3 options is possibly.
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:53 pm
xXChris-The-PandaXx I am using internet explorer (sadly) on a windows vista system my AVG expired like a little over a month and I've been trying to reinstall but with no luck (coz of my problem which went on before my AVG expired) I also have spybot which I got before I realized it was a virus magnet and don't know how to completely uninstall. I am hugely comouter illiterate aswell so any of those 3 options is possibly. I'm not very familiar with Vista, but for this problem it shouldn't make any difference. More than likely, there's something wrong with the Internet Explorer (either some sort of corruption, or some bad settings). I'd tell you to download and try out Chrome, but obviously that's not an option at the moment. If you contact me over IMs, I can try to send you a file through the messenger, and if it still won't stay on your hard drive, then we know that the problem is NOT Internet Explorer.
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