'Download This Album' problems

[lagoon_63]

From within another user's album I click 'Download This Album', then 'Cancal' because I don't want to go to the Archive list.
My dashboard shows "Archives 0/1" and clicking on this link shows "(name of album): In que".
However I normally do not get an email when the archive is ready, and when it is so it appears to be available for about 10 minutes before disappearing - most times I miss it and have to re-request the archive.

[pimp]

We will look into that asap.

[lagoon_63]

Thank you.
Additional info: it used to work but stopped about a fortnight ago. At about the same time I created the first album of my own - this may be the cause or just a coincidence.

[rupiropl]

Same goes for me: The albums I've tried to download never leave the que. What's up?

[pimp]

Question: do you try to zip "HUGE" albums with tons of pictures and big size?

or relatively small ones? cause there is an issue with zipping an album which is taking 5GB.

we will enforce some restriction in album size, so those issues wont happen in the future.

[lagoon_63]

No not that big.

But it appears to have somewhat sorted itself out. I am now receiving emails when the archive is ready and the download is available for 15 hours after the email - indeed with each archive over the previous few days the time available has been going up each time. I assumed that this was a fix being applied.

Thank you for your work on this.

[pimp]

Enjoy , we are here for you :)

[rupiropl]

Tried to download several small albums. The albums I've tried to download never leave the que and after 24 hours I have to start again. Strange...

[pimp]

we are thinking of a better solution along the lines.. if you have suggestions or showcases of how other sites do it that is more comfortable for you, you are welcome to leave it here.

[rupiropl]

Sorry, I don't know either. Basically I like your system very much, for me it's the best Only apparently it takes more than 24 hours to produce the zip-files. Either it takes too long to collect the files, the generator to make the zip-files is not powerful enough (or 24 hours is too short to complete, which should not be the case).

[pimp]

Yes this is clear, as i said we will be looking for better/smarter solution soon enough.

[zoug100]

Any news about the problem?

[cammikun]

I requested six small files to download. Normally, I wait about 10 minutes and the first one is ready to download. The files are still in queue 12 hours later. Very sad.

[cammikun]

I have been trying to download different albums. They stay in the queue for hours and then just disappear. I never have a chance to download them. Never had this problem here before :(
One of the albums was http://pimpandhost.com/album/4388705-Mendoza.html#

[pimp]

try again please.

[fbayer69]

After requesting albums for download, I get the email that's prepared for me.

I navigate to ARCHIVES and select the line with the album.

But then the system switch to the side to UPLOAD Files.


Please can someone help me ?

Thanks

[Uehl]

The albums I've tried to download never leave the que. what's up?

Same thing,
I even tried to find one of this untitled album (1 from 23) and tried to download new, but since yesterday everything is stuck in queue!!?

Please fix it!

Thanks a lot

[pimp]

well check it again

[Danny198]

Archive for album 'mag=youngcadetsinaction': Error!
Archive for album 'mag-sweetcocks': Error!
Archive for album 'mag-lockerroom2': Error!
Archive for album 'mag-jockstrapstuds': Error!


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[kml666]

Basically, every time I try to download an album, I get an error message.

http://pimpandhost.com/image/60540572

[pimp]

Basically, every time I try to download an album, I get an error message.

http://pimpandhost.com/image/60540572

We will check it out and report back.

[pimp]

We are aware, this is going to be fixed.

[skittlez77002]

I cannot get any albums archived for download... all immediately come back as error! See example below

Archive for album 'ABC...XYZ': Error!

[pimp]

We are aware, it`s being worked on.

[skittlez77002]

thanks, guy...

[pimp]

no problem, guy...

[pimp]

It should be fixed now, please test it out!

[teddy999]

i am thankful of your hard work.
but, i am still getting an error message on album downloads

[pimp]

i am thankful of your hard work.
but, i am still getting an error message on album downloads

Can you please provide the link to the album you are trying to download? so we can reproduce the error?

[teddy999]

i get this error message
Archive for album 'Februs 23': Error!
from this album
http://pimpandhost.com/album/username/fleas63?page=9

again, i am thankful for your hard work.
and appreciate your help

[pimp]

i get this error message
Archive for album 'Februs 23': Error!
from this album
http://pimpandhost.com/album/username/fleas63?page=9

again, i am thankful for your hard work.
and appreciate your help

no problem, we are here to help :)

any specific album you tried to download?

[teddy999]

i can not download any album.
i get the error message
Archive for album 'Februs 23': Error!
Archive for album 'Februs 22': Error!
Archive for album 'Februs 21': Error!
from this page
http://pimpandhost.com/album/username/fleas63?page=9
again, thanks for your help
i appreciate it

[pimp]

i can not download any album.
i get the error message
Archive for album 'Februs 23': Error!
Archive for album 'Februs 22': Error!
Archive for album 'Februs 21': Error!
from this page
http://pimpandhost.com/album/username/fleas63?page=9
again, thanks for your help
i appreciate it

np, we are on it, i hope to resolve this issue tomorrow.

[recycler]

we are thinking of a better solution along the lines.. if you have suggestions or showcases of how other sites do it that is more comfortable for you, you are welcome to leave it here.


Start a javascript timer that vastly exceeds the estimated queue + archive generation time that then starts the download automatically? Users like to watch timers.

Alternatively, if you could stream the archive over a low priority transfer with restricted bandwidth, it would give immediate starts but longer transfer time. You could give higher priority to smaller archives to increase turnover in the queue, but eventually all queue spaces are likely to be full of smaller files.

The countermeasure to that is usually to force split archives after a certain size, to ensure a fair queue rotation.

The best solution, from a user's perspective, is to begin creating the zip file immediately, and start streaming it to me before it's finished being created (zipline is a library for doing this, there are others). You don't have to write the file to disk if you do this, but it might be nice to do so just in case the transfer breaks and needs to be resumed.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4713573/serving-dynamic-zip-files-through-apache

Yeah, this is my first post. I just made an account to download an archive and ventured into your forum to find out why the functionality is broken. Hope you can fix it, and hope this post gives you some ideas. :)

[recycler]

eventually all queue spaces are likely to be full of smaller files.


larger, not smaller. doh!

[pimp]

So the album downloads should be fixed now, please test it out!

[recycler]

Working now- but large albums still seems limited to 1000 images. I'll make a post in the discussion for that bug.

Still, an archive with 1000 images is better than no archive at all. :)

[teddy999]

thank you
works like a charm
i appreciate your hard work
and your prompt response

[pimp]

thank you
works like a charm
i appreciate your hard work
and your prompt response

Enjoy my friend :)