Damn it, I just realized that all this time my simfile downloads are CORRUPTED with bad CRC checksums. When did this happen? I have no freaking clue, all I know is that it has something to do with either my FTP client or the server, because the simfiles were absolutely clean when I checked them on my PC. They become corrupted once I download and try extracting them. Perhaps the server is ninja-ing the downloads as they go to their clients, or maybe they get ninja-d the moment they are stored on the server.
Chances are, it’s been this way for the past few months, and all this time I was completely obnoxious to it. Hmm, I wonder why the people who attempt to download them don’t report such errors to me. Maybe it’s because the majority of people on the Internet just try downloading something, and if it doesn’t work, they leave and go somewhere else; they don’t take an extra one or so minute to drop me a line and say “hey your files are fubarred” or “you f#&% up” or something like that.
Anyway, for those of you who want to help troubleshoot (*looks to Bas and Kovacs*), I was using FileZilla and WinSCP to upload my simfiles. If they come back to me corrupted, no matter how many times I re-upload from my PC, there is definitely something wrong, and I want to get to the bottom of this.
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Posted July 21, 2008