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| Getting Started Why don't the links on ShareReactor work? What is eDonkey2000? How do I get started? How do I update my serverlist? Why can't I connect? Why do my downloads just say "Looking..."? How can I speed up eDonkey2000? eDonkey2000 Problems & Questions Why do I get "not a valid ed2k-link"? What do I do if my downloads get corrupted? What does "corruption found in X at X" mean? Where can I find my ID? What does my ID mean? Which port does eDonkey2000 use? What's the best server to download from? Why doesn't my download complete, even though it looks finished? Why is my finished download not in my incoming folder? Why is size transferred bigger than the size of the file? Why does eDonkey2000 keep crashing, and how do I fix it? Using and Burning Files What are .BIN/.CUE files and how do I use them? What are .ISO files and how do I use them? How do I use Daemon-Tools? How do I use a .RAR, .ACE or .001 file? Why won't my movie play? Why doesn't my movie have any sound? What are .NFO files and how do I use them? Where can I find a crack or cd-key? What does X mean? If your question isn't answered here try looking here or here. | ||
| Q: | Why don't the links on ShareReactor work? What is eDonkey2000? How do I get started? |
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| A: | eDonkey2000 is a file-sharing tool like, for example,
KaZaA. The links on ShareReactor are pointers to files shared on the eDonkey2000 network. When you click on a link, it is intercepted and interpreted by the eDonkey2000 client, and the file is added to your download list. (If you already have eDonkey2000 and links don't work, read this) Obviously, the first thing you need is the program itself, which can be found at http://www.edonkey2000.com/. Once you have that installed and running, you should update your serverlist by clicking here, then clicking on "Default" at the top left of the page and finally, "Add All" at the bottom of the next page. After a lot of clicking and flashing, you should now have lots of new servers under the "Servers" tab in eDonkey. Your next step is to configure eDonkey. Click on Options and switch on "Always stay connected" and "Reconnect on loss". Set "Max Download Speed" and "Line Speed Down" to 0, and set "Max Upload Speed" to about 90% of your internet connection's max upload. If you're not sure what your connection speed is, set it to 0. Something that happens sometimes on installation is that a proxy server gets set. To check that yours is okay, click on "Proxy Settings," and, if "Proxy Type" isn't already set to "None", click on the drop-down list and select "None". Then click OK in both windows. eDonkey should now start trying to connect to the servers in your list, and you can see its progress in the status box at the bottom on the right. Once connected to a server you should pause and resume your downloads. | |
| Q: | How do I update my serverlist? | ^ |
| A: | An up-to-date serverlist is very important for downloading
files (especially rare ones). Ideally, you should update about once a
day. To update your list just click here, then click on "Default" at the top right of the page, and "Add All" at the bottom of the next page. Alternatively, you can close eDonkey, and download a server.met from the same address as above. Save it to your eDonkey2000 directory (probably "c:\Program Files\eDonkey2000"), overwriting the old file. Then start eDonkey again. You should now have an up to date serverlist. Another alternative if you can still get connected on your current list, is to reconnect to different servers about 5 times. Each time you connect, the server will send you about 70 active servers it knows about. Be sure to stay on a server for 30 seconds or so before moving on. | |
| Q: | Why can't I connect? | ^ |
| A: | There are a few things to try if you can't connect. First,
if you haven't already done so, you should update your serverlist. Click
here to
find out how. Now, in eDonkey, click on Options, and then Proxy Settings (bottom right). Click on the arrow to the right of "Proxy Type" and select None from the list. Then click OK, and make sure "Always Stay Connected" and "Reconnect On Loss" are switched on. eDonkey should now connect automatically, and once connected, you should pause and resume your downloads. Finally, If it ever says "Placed on Connection Queue", it's working, and you just need to wait. | |
| Q: | Why do my downloads just say "Looking..."? How can I speed up eDonkey2000? | ^ |
| A: | Here are some tips that might help. Firstly, you should consider how popular the file you're downloading is. If you got the file off the main pages of a popular site like Sharereactor or Filenexus, then it should be pretty well spread. You can check how many sources you have by clicking on the small plus sign (+) to the left of a download. If there is no plus it means you have no sources. If you do have lots of sources but they're all On Queue, it means you are on that person's download queue and will start getting data from him as soon as your turn comes. In this case all you can do is wait. Otherwise, keep reading. To start off, pause all your downloads, and click here to update your serverlist. (On the page that comes up, click on "Default" at the top-right and "Add All" at the bottom of the next page). Now click on Options in eDonkey and set your settings to those suggested here. Set your "Download Limit" and "Line Speed Down" to 0. Upload should be set to about 90% of your line's maximum, or 0 if you're not sure. A good value for "Maximum connections" is 1000. Finally, switch on Always Stay Connected and Reconnect on Loss. If you weren't connected before, eDonkey should now try to connect to a server. You can see its progress in the box at the bottom right, and the titlebar should show you when it's connected ("Connected to: servername"). Once you're connected to a server, resume your downloads. | |
| Q: | Why do I get "not a valid ed2k-link"? | ^ |
| A: | The link you are trying to add contains a space or certain
other punctuation. This used to be supported (version .60 and earlier) but
someone found a security hole related to that and support was removed
completely. The easiest way to fix this is to install the program found here. Remember to close eDonkey2000 before installing the fix. You'll probably need to reinstall this whenever you reinstall eDonkey2000. If, after installing, you get a message saying you need MSVBVM60.DLL, get it here. | |
| Q: | What do I do if my downloads get corrupted? What does "corruption found in X at X" mean? |
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| A: | It's nothing to worry about if eDonkey says "Corruption
found in X at X". It will fix the part automatically, but take a bit
longer to download. More info can be found here. | |
| Q: | Where can I find my ID? What does my ID mean? Which port does eDonkey2000 use? |
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| A: | Very basically, if your ID is low (< 1,000,000) it means
computers can't connect directly to you from the internet, and that your
machine needs to initiate all connections. This is caused by either a
firewall, a router that doesn't know what to do with incoming connections,
or a bad server, and means that servers need to tell you when someone
wants to connect to you and you have to connect to them, rather than them
connecting directly to you. This can limit the number of sources you find
(two users with low IDs cannot connect to each other), but shouldn't
matter much with very popular files. In eDonkey2000, you can find your ID in the top left corner of the about box (click on the yellow "?" to the right of the ad), or by typing "g" (no quotes) in the message area (the big white box at the bottom). The latter method will even tell you if you have a high ID or not (denoted as "open" or "firewalled"). Make sure that you are connected to a server before checking your ID. It doesn't matter how high or low your ID is, only rather it is high or low. High IDs are calculated from your IP and low IDs are given out sequentially by the server. eDonkey2000 listens for connections on port 4662. If you have a bit of technical savvy, you can get a high ID by opening that port on your firewall, or by making your router forward port 4662 to your computer. If you don't think you have a router or a firewall, but are still getting a low ID, try connecting to another server. If you have Windows XP, look under your internet connection's properties and make sure the built-in firewall is switched off. If you want to run an eDonkey2000 server, you need to open/forward TCP port 4661 and UDP port 4665 as above. Note: Please don't ask us how to set up your router. We don't know. Look in the eDonkey2000 forums. Chances are someone has already done it with your model and written down what you need to know. | |
| Q: | What's the best server to connect to? | ^ |
| A: | Because eDonkey sends searches to every server on your list,
it does not matter which server you are connected to, but that you keep your
serverlist up to date. You can find more info on the workings of the
network here. | |
| Q: | Why doesn't my download complete, even though it looks finished? | ^ |
| A: | Sometimes eDonkey2000 doesn't realize that a download is
finished, even though it is. To verify that have this problem, check that
you have full sources saying "No Needed Parts". Restarting eDonkey usually fixes this problem, but not always. If restarting eDonkey doesn't work for you, try using DonkeyDoctor. Remember to close eDonkey2000 before running DonkeyDoctor. The first time you run DonkeyDoctor it'll ask for your eDonkey2000, incoming and temp folders (in that order). Fill those in and click "OK". Now you will be presented with several buttons. The one you want is "Test Met". You will now be prompted for a .PART.MET file. Select the .PART.MET file for the .PART you want to finish. After selecting the .PART.MET, just keep selecting "OK" and "Yes" until you're returned to the main menu, and your file should be in your incoming folder. | |
| Q: | Why is my finished download not in my incoming folder? | ^ |
| A: | Sometimes, for whatever reason, eDonkey2000 doesn't rename
and move the finished .PART files. In this case, close eDonkey2000, start
Windows Explorer and browse to your eDonkey2000 temp folder. Look for the
.PART file that is about the right size and does not have a matching
.PART.MET file, and move it into your incoming directory. Then rename the
.PART file to what it should be called. If it's a .BIN with a long name and you don't know what it should be called, open the .CUE that came with it in notepad and look at the first line. The exact name of the .BIN should be between quotes. | |
| Q: | Why is size transferred bigger than the size of the file? | ^ |
| A: | This happens when corruption was found earlier in the file
and eDonkey had to redownload the corrupted part. It's nothing to worry
about and the file should finish in time. If all sources say "No Needed Parts" when you click on the + to the left of the download, read this as well. | |
| Q: | Why does eDonkey2000 keep crashing, and how do I fix it? | ^ |
| A: | Sometimes eDonkey2000 crashes for seemingly no reason at
all. Usually causing a General Protection Error or Access Violation. This
seems to happen if one of the .PART.METs gets corrupted. To fix this, download and run DonkeyDoctor. Remember to close eDonkey2000 before running DonkeyDoctor. If you need more help ask in #edonkey2000. The first time you run DonkeyDoctor it'll ask for your eDonkey2000, incoming and temp folders (in that order). Fill those in and click "OK". Now you will be presented with several buttons. The one you want is "Test Met". You will now be prompted for a .PART.MET file. It is recommend to test them all. After selecting a .PART.MET to test, just keep selecting "OK" and "Yes" until you're returned to the main menu. Repeat this for all .PART.METs in your temp folder. Finally, exit DonkeyDoctor and start eDonkey as usual, and it should run stable. Another possible reason for regular crashes is that you're downloading too many files at a time. Somewhere between 5 and 10 should be okay, depending on your PC. Experiment a bit. | |
| Q: | What are .BIN/.CUE files and how do I use them? What are .ISO files and how do I use them? How do I use Daemon-Tools? |
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| A: | A .BIN/.CUE is a CD image, where the .CUE file is the
"recipe" and the .BIN is the "ingredients." There are two ways to handle
it. The first way is to burn it directly to a CD with Nero, which you can find here. After installing it, start it up and close any dialogs that pop up. Then click on "File," then "Burn image..." (If you're using Nero Express, click on "Disc image or saved project") and open the .CUE file (not the .BIN). Then just make sure "Write" and "Finalize" are selected, and that "Write Method" is set to "Disc-At-Once." Finally, click "Write". .ISO files work exactly the same as .BIN/.CUE files, except that you load the .ISO instead of the .CUE. The second way is to use Daemon-Tools, which you can find here. Daemon-Tools creates a virtual CDROM drive on your computer, which the computer regards as a perfectly normal CDROM drive. You can then "insert" images into the drive as if they were regular CDs. After installing Daemon-Tools, click on its icon next to the system tray and click "Device 0..." In the dialog that comes up, select the .CUE or .ISO file and click Open. Daemon-Tools will now have inserted the image into the drive and it should be usable as a normal CDROM drive (from, for example, Windows Explorer). If it's a movie, it's probably a VCD which you'll need PowerDVD to play. | |
| Q: | How do I use a .RAR, .ACE, .R01 or .001 file? | ^ |
| A: | These are compressed archives similiar to .ZIP files. RAR
files are opened with WinRAR and ACE
files with WinACE. .R01 and .001 (and .R02 and .002 and so on) files are volumes (parts) in a multipart archive. To extract them, open the first file in WinRAR and extract it. WinRAR will then automatically extract all the other parts. If .xxx then .001 will most likely be the first. If .Rxx, then .RAR will likely be the first. | |
| Q: | Why won't my movie play? Why doesn't my movie have any sound? |
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| A: | If your AVI movie refuses to load or play, it's possible
that it needs a codec you don't have. You can find almost all the codecs
you'll ever need in the Nimo package, available here.
Additionally you might want to install DivX
5 and XviD. If the file loads but has no sound, chances are you need the AC3 codec, which is here. To install the AC3 codec in Windows XP, open ac3-filters.zip and extract it to c:\windows\system32. Then click on Start > Run and type in "c:\windows\system32\registerfilters-win2000.cmd". To install the AC3 codec in Windows 95/98/ME, open ac3-filters.zip and extract it to c:\windows\system. Then click on Start > Run and type in "c:\windows\system\registerfilters-98.bat". To install the AC3 codec in Windows 2000, open ac3-filters.zip and extract it to c:\winnt\system32. then click on Start > Run and type in "c:\winnt\system32\registerfilters-win2000.cmd". | |
| Q: | What are .NFO files and how do I use them? | ^ |
| A: | Most releases come with an .NFO file. An .NFO typically
contains information about the game/program and how to install it. If a
serial is needed you'll most likely find it in the .NFO. To read an .NFO, open it with Notepad. Be sure to read the .NFO if you have any problems installing or running a game or program. If there are any special instructions that need to be carried out in order to make your game/program work, you'll find them in the .NFO. | |
| Q: | Where can I find a crack or cd-key? |
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| A: | Game cracks can be found here and here. Application cracks can be
found here. Note that most games
on eDonkey have cracks and cd-keys included. Read the .NFO files with
notepad and employ a bit of common sense. | |
| Q: | What does X mean? | ^ |
| A: | No Needed Parts: This source doesn't have any parts of the
file that you don't already. If all the sources for a particular
download says this, then either the file isn't complete on the network at
all, in which case you should ask in the ShareReactor or FileNexus forums for someone to share
it again - or you're just not getting enough sources for the file, in
which case you should refer to the first
question. | |