lost unfinished downloads
 

hey guys,

my notebook was over heating, so it ****ed off. i couldn´t close phex like you do that usually. when i reopend phex, all my unfinished downloads were gone :-((. does anyone have any idea how to restore them??? i´m using the java cross-platform version on suse 9.2

thanx

geezee

That Happened to me too! What the ****!

me too facing the same problem.....
guys although the unifinshed downloads r very much there in the folderbut phex is not showing in download window i lost my unfinished download when it was 800mb only 20 mb remained !!! guys is any way to resume those downloads thanks in advance i am a new bee to phex pls help me out

sorry mods! to disturb u again
all i got through this forum that i lost phexdownload.xml file i searched it every where even throg undelete but i didnt get it so now pls tell me that how can i recreate that file with information of my unfinished downloads i also attaching te error file pls guys tell me is there ne way to resume those unfinishd downloads

i am using
Intel p4 2.4
intel original 845 gvsr board
1 gb ram
win2k with sp3
zone alarm 6+
symantec corp. anti virus
pls help me out
thanx in avance

I have PHEX 2.6.4.89 running under NetBSD and Windows XP, and i dont have similar problem. :confused:

THe problem is, that the information abot yout unfinished downloads is only stored in the phexdownload.xml-file.
If you lost that, you'll have to restart your downloads, even though that hurts.

I'm sorry, that it happened to you. Losing data through crashes is hard to avoid.

As a little way to have your downloads a bit more secure, try copying the phexdownloads.xml when your notebook should crash again before you reopen phex.

It is an xml-file, and if it got damaged you might be able to salvage some, maybe all of your downloads from it, when you find the point where it got broken.

It starts with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<phex phex-version="2.6.4.89">
<swDownloadList>

Then every download starts with:
<swDownloadFile>
and ends with
</swDownloadFile>
If everything in between those tags is ok, you should be able to copy this information into the new List.

One problem might be, that the files might have changed, after that file was saved, but that can't be changed without much speed-loss.

To make this a bit less dangerous, I just added a feature-request at teh sourcefogre page of phex, asking that it copys the phexdownload.xml to phexdownload.bak before overwriting it, so it becomes easier to salvage your downloads to the extent, to which it is possible.

Check it here (and maybe some more Feature Requests come to your minds).

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...21&atid=388895

All you can do is reconstruct the download information of the first segment..
The segment that ends with the original file extension.
This is the only segment where you know at which position it start (always at 0)
I would define the the segment in the XML a few KBs shorter then on the disk to make sure the end does not contain artefacts.

But still it is very experimental if it works at all..