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Lets have a Winge / Re: MEGA
« Last post by Ratso on Thu 19 Jun 2025 23:34:15 »Strange init?
Long may you continue getting old.
Long may you continue getting old.
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Lets have a Winge / Re: MEGA
« Last post by Beergut on Thu 19 Jun 2025 22:26:41 »I had the same issue a while back Ratso. Downloads would just stop mid way with no warning or reason. I spent ages looking for answers to no avail.
Then just as suddenly as the problem started, it vanished one day. no problems since. I wish I could say it was something I did, but that just wasn't the case.
And Sunny, anyone who programmed in Cobol has my complete and utter respect. I tried learning it at night school and failed utterly. I did manage to master Borland Pascal though and became pretty adept at Dbase III.
I also remember those text games, acoustic couplers you put on the mouthpiece or earpiece of your phone, and the very early graphic games like Kings Quest and Space Quest.
I must be getting old...
Then just as suddenly as the problem started, it vanished one day. no problems since. I wish I could say it was something I did, but that just wasn't the case.
And Sunny, anyone who programmed in Cobol has my complete and utter respect. I tried learning it at night school and failed utterly. I did manage to master Borland Pascal though and became pretty adept at Dbase III.
I also remember those text games, acoustic couplers you put on the mouthpiece or earpiece of your phone, and the very early graphic games like Kings Quest and Space Quest.
I must be getting old...
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Obituaries and Eulogies / Re: R.I.P. - Lou Christie (82)
« Last post by deutros on Thu 19 Jun 2025 21:55:45 »RIP Lou the only thing I can say is no matter how morbid it's great to see our 60's icons reaching a grand old age.
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Obituaries and Eulogies / R.I.P. - Lou Christie (82)
« Last post by punkinblue9 on Thu 19 Jun 2025 20:42:03 »https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2025/06/18/pittsburgh-hitmaker-lou-christie-obituary/stories/202506180098
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Lets have a Winge / Re: MEGA
« Last post by Ratso on Tue 17 Jun 2025 02:20:29 »Like I said Sunny, I've used Mega for years without any problems, and this issue is recent but can be overcome with patience. I'm not that patient, and that is down to me. Please keep using Mega if it works for you.
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Lets have a Winge / Re: MEGA
« Last post by SunnyToo on Tue 17 Jun 2025 01:40:40 »I use MEGA for all my posts so I'm sorry if people are having issues.
Personally I don't have any of the issues that have been referred to but I use it in a somewhat different way.
If you have a Mega account - you can sign up for a free 20GB account - you can then install the MegaSync application, which allows you to synchronize a folder (or folders) on your computer with your Mega account. When you click on a link to Mega you get an option to download or copy to a synchonized folder in your Mega account. The download is then handled by the MegaSync app rather than your browser. I've found this be both reliable and fast. MegaSync is available for Windows, Mac & Linux.
I know it sounds like a bit of a stuff around but it works well for me.
Personally I don't have any of the issues that have been referred to but I use it in a somewhat different way.
If you have a Mega account - you can sign up for a free 20GB account - you can then install the MegaSync application, which allows you to synchronize a folder (or folders) on your computer with your Mega account. When you click on a link to Mega you get an option to download or copy to a synchonized folder in your Mega account. The download is then handled by the MegaSync app rather than your browser. I've found this be both reliable and fast. MegaSync is available for Windows, Mac & Linux.
I know it sounds like a bit of a stuff around but it works well for me.
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Lets have a Winge / Re: MEGA
« Last post by Ratso on Tue 17 Jun 2025 01:10:14 »I remember that one. You had to show a ring to a sarcophagus to find the princess. What a blast from the past!
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Lets have a Winge / Re: MEGA
« Last post by Guy on Tue 17 Jun 2025 01:08:03 »Being happening to me as well - with multiple attempts required. I thought it was just me and my flakey Internet feed.
Not sure if you realise that Edge and Chrome retain failed downloads within their cache folders (within your PC's user profile), which can quickly fill your Hard Drive over time.
I clean mine out on a regular basis, and have freed up Gigabytes of space at a time. So I guess I need to explain how to do this in Windows OS (not sure about MACs). You will need to ensure that Hidden Items is ticked within the View TAB in Windows Explorer to be able to do the following
Note: Don't delete any folder structures while you are doing this.
EDGE
Open the USERS folder on your C: Drive and find your Profile Folder (Username), and open it.
Find the APPDATA folder (usually hidden) and open it
Open LOCAL folder
Find the MICROSOFT folder and open it
Find the EDGE folder and open it
Open USER DATA folder
Find the DEFAULT folder and open it
Find the FILE SYSTEM folder and open it
You should now see multiple folders named: 000, 001, 002 ........etc
If any of these numbered folders have a P folder within them (you need to look in each), then this is where you will find old residual files no longer being used.
Open the P folder and then any numbered folders inside it.
Residual files will be typically named with lots of leading 0's and then a digit (ie. 00000007 ) They are labelled as FILE with a SIZE in KB
These can be safely deleted without harming your computer and will free up lost space.
CHROME
Open the USERS folder on your C: Drive and find your Profile Folder (Username), and open it.
Find the APPDATA folder (usually hidden) and open it
Open LOCAL folder
Find the GOOGLE folder and open it
Find the CHROME folder and open it
Open USER DATA folder
Find the DEFAULT folder and open it
Find the FILE SYSTEM folder and open it
You should now see multiple folders named: 000, 001, 002 ........etc
If any of these numbered folders have a P folder within them, then this is where you will find old residual files no longer being used.
Open the P folder and then any numbered folders inside it.
Residual files will be typically named with lots of leading 0's and then a digit (ie. 00000007 ) They are labelled as FILE with a SIZE in KB
These can be safely deleted without harming your computer and will free up lost space.
From what I can gather, restarting your PC does not house clean these residual files which is really annoying.
Not sure if you realise that Edge and Chrome retain failed downloads within their cache folders (within your PC's user profile), which can quickly fill your Hard Drive over time.
I clean mine out on a regular basis, and have freed up Gigabytes of space at a time. So I guess I need to explain how to do this in Windows OS (not sure about MACs). You will need to ensure that Hidden Items is ticked within the View TAB in Windows Explorer to be able to do the following
Note: Don't delete any folder structures while you are doing this.
EDGE
Open the USERS folder on your C: Drive and find your Profile Folder (Username), and open it.
Find the APPDATA folder (usually hidden) and open it
Open LOCAL folder
Find the MICROSOFT folder and open it
Find the EDGE folder and open it
Open USER DATA folder
Find the DEFAULT folder and open it
Find the FILE SYSTEM folder and open it
You should now see multiple folders named: 000, 001, 002 ........etc
If any of these numbered folders have a P folder within them (you need to look in each), then this is where you will find old residual files no longer being used.
Open the P folder and then any numbered folders inside it.
Residual files will be typically named with lots of leading 0's and then a digit (ie. 00000007 ) They are labelled as FILE with a SIZE in KB
These can be safely deleted without harming your computer and will free up lost space.
CHROME
Open the USERS folder on your C: Drive and find your Profile Folder (Username), and open it.
Find the APPDATA folder (usually hidden) and open it
Open LOCAL folder
Find the GOOGLE folder and open it
Find the CHROME folder and open it
Open USER DATA folder
Find the DEFAULT folder and open it
Find the FILE SYSTEM folder and open it
You should now see multiple folders named: 000, 001, 002 ........etc
If any of these numbered folders have a P folder within them, then this is where you will find old residual files no longer being used.
Open the P folder and then any numbered folders inside it.
Residual files will be typically named with lots of leading 0's and then a digit (ie. 00000007 ) They are labelled as FILE with a SIZE in KB
These can be safely deleted without harming your computer and will free up lost space.
From what I can gather, restarting your PC does not house clean these residual files which is really annoying.
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Lets have a Winge / Re: MEGA
« Last post by Guy on Tue 17 Jun 2025 01:07:35 »Sounds a little like Transylvania (my favourite text based adventure game when I was just starting to use computers in the classroom)
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Lets have a Winge / Re: MEGA
« Last post by SunnyToo on Tue 17 Jun 2025 00:37:04 »Dial-Up. That would have been LUXURY.
Back in the day (late 1970s) when I was doing Fortran/Cobol programming I used a portable teletype through an acoustic coupler to access our work mainframe from home. No screen involved. Just keyboard and printer. Transfer rate was measured in Bits per second; not kilobits, megabits or gigabits; just plain Bits. And after you'd finished whatever you were being paid to do you could relax with a text based adventure game:
"You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully...". [If you're of a certain age and were involved in mainframe computing you'll know what I'm talking about.]
Back in the day (late 1970s) when I was doing Fortran/Cobol programming I used a portable teletype through an acoustic coupler to access our work mainframe from home. No screen involved. Just keyboard and printer. Transfer rate was measured in Bits per second; not kilobits, megabits or gigabits; just plain Bits. And after you'd finished whatever you were being paid to do you could relax with a text based adventure game:
"You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully...". [If you're of a certain age and were involved in mainframe computing you'll know what I'm talking about.]