text files not downloading

Submitted by keirh_uk on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 14:08
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If I queue a folder from someone that includes a text file everything else downloads fine but the text file stays Queued forever. Image files less than 100k download fine, so there's no obvious connection with the 'immediately upload files smaller than...' option on their end, unless they've changed the size which I imagine few people do.

Submitted by keirh_uk on Fri, 12/05/2014 - 03:49.

just adding that a text file with the .nfo extension will download fine, so the issue seems specific to the .txt extension. I've checked my exclusions and there's only the default .ini

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Submitted by MELERIX on Sat, 12/06/2014 - 06:04.

what is the full name of the .txt file ? may be some character is not compatible with other OS.

Submitted by Nir on Fri, 12/05/2014 - 10:48.

I can't reproduce this. Anyone else having this problem?

Submitted by smuggler on Sat, 12/06/2014 - 06:32.

From time to time I have the same problem that one small txt-file doesn't download. But most of the time it works fine for me.

Submitted by keirh_uk on Sun, 12/07/2014 - 05:03.

I don't think it's the file name, some are as basic as Chappell LPC 440-445.txt

Something which may be a clue - I've just noticed that when I have queued a folder containing one of these, nothing appears in the 'size' column for that file, whereas the filesize does appear for all other files in the folder.

Submitted by keirh_uk on Tue, 12/09/2014 - 00:15.

I can confirm that with some txt files the size does show in the queue and the files do download, so it seems that what I experience is the same as what smuggler experiences.

Submitted by Nir on Thu, 12/11/2014 - 14:34.

Yeah, I got one of these shared file not found messages for a text file myself. I'll look into it over the weekend.

Thanks, Nir