How to fix .jar file downloads freezing

Jiaz

Thanks for confirming what I was afraid of. I was VERY nervous to do what the other guy suggested.

You asked in the next post what hosts. I don't know which one causes a problem, because I've had n o problems downloading from them before. Currently have stuff from MU, HF, RS, NL, MS downloading and probably others. I have Downloaded from Mediafire in the past & again recently. I never had problems before, and after restarting the program I'll eventually finish my downloads regardless of the host.

I'm not sure what I could take a screenshot of for you, because the program will be running fine, then just freeze. Whatever DLs were running will be at whatever percentage they were at when it froze, & the bar at the top right will show the speed it was coming down at. You probably wouldn't even know it was frozen just by looking at it until you notice none of the numbers or times are changing. It did do one other weird thing once during this problem period. I'll try to describe it the best I can to you. As files are being downloaded, they are a "white" file that says "part" until it finishes then it changes to whatever it's supposed to be like a rar file for example. Well, at some point, possibly the first time this started acting up the program apparently TRIED to DL something couldn't then moved on to the next file repeatedly. So I ended up with maybe or more "part" files in my DL folder from movies going way down the list. (way past the last thing that actually downloaded) They all were zero bites in size, so I just deleted them & restarted the program and they downloaded normally. I don't know if this will help you to identify the problem, but it's the only other odd thing this has done since it started freezing up. BUT it only did it that ONE time.

This program has worked great ever since I started using it. Will run my DLs from multiple sites, enter PWs to unrar & then does the unrar even when have to double unrar them. Oh I just thought of something else. I have several "Iso" files that I am downloading initially as rar files. When it comes time to unrar them JDownloader asks me for the PW instead of using it from the list I already have it on. So, I type in the PW and it says extract failed. However, I go to my DL folder manually unrar it myself type in the PW and it works fine. Your program still extracts all my other files, so I am definitely not complaining that I have to do a few myself. BUT I'm trying to think of anything odd to tell you that may help you figure out where the problem lies. I know for fact that the first time it froze was shortly after it could not extract those particular files. I actually thought that was causing the freezing up issue. However, I have DLed other files & skipped those particular Iso files and it still freezes up.

I've had ZERO problems when using this until that last 48 hours or so. (maybe 72 by now) It has NEVER froze on me before then even when DLing at 6 megs per sec or higher. It has been an awesome program !! I don't know why this just started, and appears to be affecting many of us, all in the same time period. Sometimes it will freeze within minutes of starting. Other times it may run a couple of hours before it freezes up. But before all this started, I'd leave it running 24/7 for days with NO problem. Since having the problems start, I updated to the most recent java, but couldn't tell you what I had before I updated. I don't think it matters since still have the problem. I am running Windows 7, but it's the same OS & computer that this program has worked fine with since I first downloaded JDownloader. I haven't changed a thing on my end.

Since you have the title "JD-Dev & Server-Admin" I'm going to wait to read your suggestions before I try to do anything else. I've tried to give as much detail as possible, but if have any other questions feel free to PM me, or even e-mail me. I'm going to bed soon, so it may be several hours before I can reply. However, I'll look for a reply here or in my PM to see if you find the resolution to the problem, or have other questions for me as soon as I get up.

Thanks in advance for your help, BJ (DarterBull)

PS Just saw your last post os Win7, java version 6 update 22 now (not sure what it was before), JD launcher V 3 but there is a version text file that says subversion=5, firewall is just the windows firewall, not sure what av is ?? And I looked in almost every folder in the JD program but didn't see any hs_err files in it. But anything else I can try to provide to help please ask.