Hi Lenny,
Thanks so much for your reply! It's great to have a reliable resource for problems with YM. Yes, the problem has occurred every time for larger, video files (but they are usually less than 10MB). The smaller, picture files get through fine, but the larger files stop after a short time. This was not a problem with the previous version, and the files were approximately the same size. You started to give some advice when the problem was every time, but you didn't complete the sentence.... It does seem to be a one-way problem, in that usually my files (both small and larger) transfer to my German friend, but there was one instance when my picture file was stopped. I read your blog post about installing a full version of YM, so this will be an option, depending on what you say. However, your advice to run a registry cleaner is strongly discouraged by another Yahoo group that I am a member of (The Help Group)...the experts there think it's unwise for an average computer user to do this. What say you? Thanks again! Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "LNVTM1 - Lenny Vasbinder" <[email protected]> To: "Yahoo Messenger" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:39:32 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: RE: [Y!M] Problems with File Transfer Has this happened on every occasion where they tried to send the larger file to you... presuming the video file is a much larger file than a picture file... or only sporadically? If it's happened every time with the larger file, If only sporadically, then it is likely due to server issues with Yahoo. Usually signing out and back in will get one onto a different server... hopefully one that is not having issues. If that does not work, then he may have a faulty install with one or more scrambled files as part of the thousands of files that are installed during a typical installation of YM. If they used the main Yahoo website for installing YM, they should try downloading a FULL version of YM instead of the small Install version that Yahoo has folks download. I find many problems related to doing the Installer version and I ONLY use FULL versions when I install YM on my own and other's computers and I rarely see problems when done this way. I wrote an article about this with step-by-step instructions that you/your friend can follow to do a clean and FULL install and see if that solves the problem. http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-i-always-do-clean-instal-ofl- yahoo.html If the link breaks, go to my main blog link in my sig and on the left side, you will see "Labels" with a link to the article. Lenny Vasbinder http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and files... https://mozy.com/?ref=SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't using your computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Y!M] Problems with File Transfer Hi all, I'm new to the group, so I hope my problem has not already been dealt with...apologies if it has... I use YM mainly to "talk" to a friend in Germany, and to share video and picture files. I updated to version 9.0.0.2162 about a month ago, and for awhile my German friend still had the older version (apparently it was available first in the USA, before Europe?)....no problems during that time. But just after he updated, we started having a problem in that his video files would not transfer to me...they would start, but after about 10 seconds stop and a message informing me of same. His picture files transfer without difficulty. And, the odd thing is, all of my files transfer to him without a problem, during the same session. Has anyone else experienced this? I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to go about fixing it. Thanks alot! Bob ------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscribe from Yahoo_Messenger mailto:[email protected] Switch from Normal to Digest mail mailto:[email protected] Switch from Normal to NoMail mail mailto:[email protected] Switch from Digest or NoMail to Normal mail mailto:[email protected] Write to the Moderators and Owner of the List: mailto:[email protected] Suggestions for improvements to the List should be sent to the "owner" address listed above.Yahoo! Groups Links
