Erik

Wow that sounds like an internet security suite and not just anti-virus.

What kind of anti-virus software do you use? The best software is believe it or not FREE. I'd seriously consider removing your old costly AV software and go to: http://free.grisoft.com/ I'll bet your problems go away after that. ;)

Hello Everyone; I'd like to take a few moments to announce some new opportunities and features here at CombatACE.com. Before I talk about the new features, it is important to outline some history and facts. Just a short year and half ago when MK2 decided to step up and provide for this community, our membership hovered around 3,000. Today it is nearing 30,000. In the early days of our community it was common for us to provide five to six hundred Gigabytes (GB) of data transfer each month. Currently, in line with our continuing growth in the community, our consumption demands have grown exponentially and are now measured not in GB but in Tera bytes (TB) (1TB = 1000GB) each month. We're pleased with the growth of the community and the popularity of all the available downloads and site wide features and assets. We would like to continue that forward momentum with an idea geared toward member support that will work seamlessly with the daily download limits currently in use. As I mentioned, CombatACE has been solely supported by a single benefactor, MK2, for over a year and half. Our monthly expenses average roughly 500.00 USD and in total over $11,000.00 USD have been invested toward the continuation of the community. That said, it should be no secret that the major expense here at CombatACE is the bandwidth and physical demand incurred by our download section. The download section itself is stocked with releases from the modding community and have a combined download count over 2.5 million transfers. With that in mind, please take a moment to sign our thank you thread for MK2 ::LINK TO POST:: In the past we provided ad space which in theory should have covered the expenses, but the reality is quite another picture. Internet advertisers, even for the biggest sites, like to barter away exposure instead of paying for it. There are some exceptions but they are far and few between. For this reason our ability to offset costs with revenue generated from ads simply hasn't happened. More recent and for the past few months I'm sure you've all seen ads on the site for American Express, CompUSA, Match.com, and more. Those ads were part of our link share program we tried out as a way to generate some revenue. The basic design of this program allows for advertisers like those mentioned above to pay for actual sales instead of ad space. Using our site as an example we cluttered up the user space with banners in the expectation members would find the content interesting enough to click through to the advertiser's site and buy whatever they were selling. During our attempt at generating revenue through link share we gave away over a hundred million unique impressions, had 9,329 click throughs to advertisers, but $0.00 in sales which generated $0.00 in revenue. We've since discontinued our advertising link share program. When we rolled out the daily download limits they met with some stern objections from our members. We knew then that as a temporary solution to limiting our exposure we'd need to come up with a plan to allow members the option to upgrade their individual accounts. Our new member subscriptions fill that need nicely in an affordable way to not only give you unlimited access to downloads but provide you with an opportunity to show support for your community. Subscription Plans offer: Unlimited access to downloads Larger storage limits for onsite images and files More flexible member benefits for posting and board access More profile features Member badges and identification identifying you as a proud contributor and supporter Today's new release of member subscription accounts won't affect our non-subscriber accounts. Everyone who has joined or will join our community starts with a free non-subscriber account, and those free accounts will retain the download limits. On top of this, we will now offer paid subscription accounts that will lift all the download restrictions. The new subscription accounts are easy to purchase and are handled through PayPal for secure, private, and convenient access. Member subscriptions are available in 1 month, 6 month, and 1 year plans. Designed to allow our members access to more site features, more storage, and more downloads it's a perfect fit for the CombatACE in you. Click the banner below to go to your subscription area and sign up for a plan today. Support the community that supports you! UNLOCK YOUR DOWNLOADS CLICK HERE

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Ahhh looks like someone made his 30th post and graduated to a "Junior Member". Looks good on you too. Erik

OMG that IS hilarious. Disgusting but hilarious. I guess the bottom line is eatable underwear gets new meaning.

Well I'm not sure you need to worry about it, but if you want to remove it you can always boot to a command prompt. Then change to the directory of the file and remove it. More than likely it's a 0 Byte file. Do some googling on some step by step instructions. That way I'm not liable if you remove something you shouldn't. LOL E

There is also the lei-er but that's a whole different set of rules.

All is fixed. This got uploaded on Saturday when I was making changes to the download section and got put into a category that is the parent for the terrains sub category which wasn't supposed to be uploadable to and downloadable from. So once uploaded there I changed the options for the parent which in effect locked the file into an area which can't be downloaded from. I moved this to it's correct sub category which you can download from and all is fixed. Sorry it took me so long to realize what the heck was going on. At least now if we find others that got locked out we'll know where to start looking first. Erik

All is fixed. This got uploaded on Saturday when I was making changes to the download section and got put into a category that is the parent for the terrains sub category which wasn't supposed to be uploadable to and downloadable from. So once uploaded there I changed the options for the parent which in effect locked the file into an area which can't be downloaded from. I moved this to it's correct sub category which you can download from and all is fixed. Sorry it took me so long to realize what the heck was going on. At least now if we find others that got locked out we'll know where to start looking first. Erik

I did some reading over at the Knowledge Base (Yes I read the KB before I ask questions) on Invision's site about referrer header problems, internet explorer, and one of our anti-leach settings for the download section. I made the changes they suggested and just need someone to test it out. Can we get someone with IE6 and IE7 to test it out? It's working here, but then again it always was and I've tested it with Opera, Firefox 3.0, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL Explorer, IE6, IE7. The wonders of the internet will never cease to amaze me. Erik

what? How does that have anything to do with downloading and how did you come up with that solution to the problem?

Are you trying to open multiple downloads at the same time? Example: downloading the snowy terrain and maybe an aircraft at the same time? Let me know. E

Yeah. I think you hit the "simultaneous" download cap. To prevent those download accelerator programs from crashing the site "Remember those horrible database error messages?" I had to cap the max number of connections one person could make to the server. So in this case the download section was working correctly. Whew what a change of pace huh? E

Alright fair enough. Can you tell me what you were trying to download?

All is fixed. Please report any problems uploading or downloading files here. Thanks.

All is fixed. Please report any problems uploading or downloading files here. Thanks.

Keep up to date about the progress here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=29094 Thanks for letting us know about the issue. Erik

FC nailed it. Keep up to date about the problem in this thread: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=29094

I see the problem and it's going to take some time to fix. I'll update this thread when I have everything working again. The good news is the A6 category is back online. Erik

the email change if it was validated would prevent you from posting on the boards and downloading anything so I'd say the email change has nothing to do with it. there might be a problem with the categories you're downloading from so if you can narrow something down i can look at specifically that would be great. Erik

which categories?

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;req=ucp_files My Controls > "Download Manager" Manage Files is where the above link should take you. Once there you can click on the file you want to edit. It should take you to the actual file page. Look on the lower right section of that page and you'll see options one of which is "edit file". This basically takes you back to the upload page and allows you to re-upload (read: update or change) the file, description, screen shot, etc. This should be available to anyone, unless something changed. The delete files option which Dave is talking is no longer available but edit should still work. Erik

Dang that's some serious business there and all that while wearing a saddle. I say hunter and photographer should saddle the dogs and give the mule the riffle.

use the volume control on the video window or turn your speakers down