FileServe - Make Money - Up to $25 per 1000 downloads (Official thread)

[Gerner2010]

@ dsafari

If a file fails - like this - it will continue to fail no matter how many times you upload it, because it has the same MD5.

You have to repack or wait to see if the server fixes it itself.
Sometimes a failing file can be copied later, sometimes not.
:-(

... or send a PM to Ricky or something.

[dsafari]

@Gerner2010: You are wrong...as I said above...uploading via remote upload has worked for all the problem files. No repack was required.

Also, it isn't the upload via FTP that is failing - I am able to share the uploaded file just fine, it's just that many of them can't be copied. I suspect there is problems with their post processing of FTP'd files.

[Gerner2010]

I said if the file fails like THIS - can not be copied.

I am not talking about how you uploaded it.
Problem MAY be upload method, but you have to repack - often - to fix the error.

[dsafari]

Well--- md5sum has nothing to do with it.

[Gerner2010]

Yes it has.

1 file gives you copy error.
You upload it again - and in this case it gives you the same error because the file has the same MD5.

In fact you do not have 2 different files with the same file name on FS.
You have only 1 FAILING file (failing to copy, not unreachable), with 2 different links which can not be copied.

It will fail every time you upload it because it has the same MD5 as the 'original' uploaded file, which gives you an error.

If you upload a file 10 times you still only have 1 file on FS, with 10 different links.

Disclaimer:
This used to happen all day long when servers were failing about 8 months ago.
If you uploaded a file and you recieved a 404, you had to repack.

Looks like the same kind of error - but this time you get a copy error every time you upload it.
The server is telling you you can not copy the file, therefore re-uploaded files will also fail because the links are linked to the same file on the same failing server.

[ARGHHH]

@ ARGHHH: You're upgrading your account as your own referral? E.g.:

ARGHHH1 has ARGHHH2 as referral. ARGHHH1 upgrades ARGHHH2 with a Premium account via Paypal, and then sells it to a randomer?

I wouldn't recommend this. Why not become a reseller instead?

Hi Rick,

What I did with HF was to buy a brand new 1 month account, with myself as the referrer.

I then said to a friend "Heres a one month account you can have for free, just change the account password and its yours". He used the account (and extended it), and I got my 20% rake because I was the referrer.

Some accounts I gave away were actually only used for a month, then they died, but a lot were kept going - right up till I stopped using HF

I just looked at your reseller page... I don't think thats quite what I'm after

[Gerner2010]

@ ARGHHH

If you log into an account (and therefore also if you create an account) which is your own referral, it will probably be flagged as cheating.

FS can not distinguish an 'honorable' man like you with your intentions, from cheaters automatically.

My advice : Do not do it.

[ARGHHH]

Thats what I thought - that it might send up a flag somewhere.

Its a shame though, people are happy to use an account they get for free, but trying to get them to sign up AND use a referrer is like trying to catch fog in a net most of the time

[RickyFS]

@ ARGHHH: You just have to find a plastic bag to catch that fog. Sorry bud.

@ all: I was talking about 404 unreachable files. Not error on copying. That would be the least of our worries.

[myincome2020]

Another link too error 404:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/wFPsuW...0.2%20Lite.rar