Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Lois & Clark Problems with the Archive!

Hi everyone!

I've read quite a few long stories on the Archive with no problems before, but lately I've noticed that for some odd reason, the fics I read would be cut off mid-sentence, and there'd be no ending! So I'd click Refresh and the last part of the fic would pop up...for about 3 seconds, and then it would disappear again, leaving the fic hanging. Does anyone know what's up with that, or does anyone have the same problem?

I've tried just saving the fics and they would turn out okay, but they're unformatted and just harder to read, ya know?

I'd love to hear from anyone!

Mirage

I have only printed two story off in the past week from them - The House of Kent & Hearts Divided (??). For me the latter didn't print all the way. It just stopped b/c there was no more fic to print. Now I'm stuck w/ an unfinished ending.

Which fics have encoutnered that this has happened to you? I'll go see if it happens to me to. I plan on checking mine later on today to see if it was my computer that was acting silly yesterday when I was printing.

Hi Roo, thanks for the offer to help! I can't remember some of the titles from before, but the more recent ones that I've been reading that haven't been working (unless if I save them) include Abigail Jolie's Thanksgiving Hunger/A Homemade Present, I Saw Mommy Kissing Superman, and Christy's AKA Daddy.

I've noticed, however, that if I go to the Kerth site and click on the winners, the links come up alright, and they're linked from the Archive, aren't they?

Weird, isn't it? But thanks for checking this out for me!

Mirage

I've checked the stories mentioned here and they all load for me just fine, complete and intact. This is on the Lois and Clark Fanfic Archive - right?

LabRat

Hi LabRat! Yep - all from the archive. I'm starting to think maybe I have some sort of virus or bug...I should stop downloading music!

But thanks for taking the time out to check it for me!

Mirage

I wonder if it's something with your browser or browser settings. What browser are you using?

Also, if you're using Windows, have you tried opening the downloaded files in Word instead of Notepad?

Paul

I used to have this problem when I was on dial-up ... the server would hang in the middle of the download and not finish uploading the story. If you copy or print the file before it's all there, you get an incomplete file. The reason you see that last part of the page flash when you refresh is because it's the first attempt "finishing" and then being replaced by the second attempt, which also hangs. Very, very frustrating, I agree.

As for a solution, though, I'm not sure ... it might be a matter of clearing your cache or seeing if you have any other obvious problems, like a virus or slow software/hardware. But beyond that, it seems like a connection problem. Definitely not something wrong with the Archive.

Good luck; I sympathize.

Kathy

Thanks everyone, for trying to help me out!

I actually use cable and Internet Explorer.

Paul: Yes, it works much better that way, thanks!

Kathy: Yeah, I think I either have to clear my cache or I have a virus... I mean, I use cable, so that can't be the problem. This is so annoying. Maybe I should just resort to d/ling everything if I'm reading from the archive! But thanks a bunch!

Mirage

The only time I don't get a complete story is if I copy it before it has completely downloaded. And of course, one goes "duh" at that. But...I have an explanation. I found after a time that sometimes the stories hang up toward the end (internet traffic and all) and the little black bar in the lower right is still solid and *almost* to the end. A tiny difference in being not quite to the end can make a huge difference in how much of the story you have in your browser window. I use Netscape, but also have I.E. Anyway, the advice is to make sure the loading bar on the lower right has vanished before you copy the story. Just for info, I don't print anything. I read off my computer or my handheld.

Artemis

LOL, that brings back memories. Took me a time to stop getting so excited about new fanfic when I first found the Archive to wait the extra seconds for that 'done' to appear at the bottom of my screen.

LabRat

Yeah, I remember trying to download one particular story <cough Caped Fear cough> that took several attempts on our little 56k modem...

But it was well worth the 3 hours.

James

It hasn't happened to me lately. For me there is no downloading time, it is instant so I thought it was weird that click after click I still had the same outcome that weekend.

Well I totally forgot about the story I was into in October. There was a link to this from another topic. I am so glad b/c I couldn't find out what story I had started off!!!

I'm going to go and read the rest. Hopefully it works for me now.