bilbobaggins
Member
I've failed a dozen times today to get this fine prog's 'Setup.exe' to function. It seeks to phone home to 'check availability', then 'Failed to connect. Please try again' time after time after time. This with and without my COMODO firewall, and showing upwards of 8-10 hours left of the relevant day.
And '502 bad gateway' error message.....
Problem is, after download, I uninstalled the earlier version to avoid possible conflicts. Zut alors!
Any suggestions?
techman157
Member
No suggestion, I'm afraid. I've had the same problem for the last hour and a half. Thirty minutes left. First time I've had this problem for more than one or two tries - and I've downloaded hundreds of programs from here. No 502 gateway messages - I did get those a bunch for a while until something at GAOTD or on my PC changed...- but that was months ago.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
hi Bilbo, the program automatically uninstalls the previous version. Did you use the uninstaller or did you delete the file manually. If it was the latter you may be able to salvage something by finding a v4.4.1 version of the program and reinstalling it. If you used the uninstlaller the registration code will have been removed and there will be no way you can recover it unless you first run Restore to a previous day (assuming you've created a restore point - If you have it set to auto it should create a restore point whenever you install something. {I think}) Then you'd have to run a recovery program to get the uninstalled program back.
All that said, if you manually deleted it you should beable to recover it from your recycle bin.... unless dare I say it you emptied the bin.
bilbobaggins
Member
'Lo, Whiterabbit-uk.
I used Revo Uninstaller - another good giveaway - so there's nothing left, except Paragon Partition Master. Pity, for I'd have preferred EASEUS.
The '502 Bad Gateway' message came, twice, when I tried to use the comment box on GAOTD's page. There's something just a little 'ragged-edged' about this site at times.....
tekknokat
Member
I downloaded this software for Windows 7 just fine, and I tried to download it again for Vista on the same computer. For the past hour or so I keep getting –Bad Gateway 502– so I cannot download it again. On most days I am permitted to download the same software twice on the same computer, once for my Vista drive, and again for my Windows 7 drive, today it’s not letting me download it again at 11:00 PM Mountain Time, and the downloads run here until 1:00 AM Mountain Time since I have used GOTD. I appreciate any suggestions. Maybe your site or the developer’s site is having difficulty? The Mirror is giving me the same 502 Gateway error message as well. Many thanks. –Alan P
Comment by Alan — April 16th, 2010 at 1:44 am
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I apologize, I believe the above comment probably falls under the category of "post in the forum," but I registered, and did not think that anybody was going to give me a password. I have become paranoid and believe that one or some of the moderators here "have it in for me," for reasons I won't go in to. I'm sure they are baseless.
Actually the above 502 Gateway problem never resolved for me at the site here. I found a workaround by sheer luck. Usually I feel it is best policy, and just polite, to share workarounds in the forum, that's what it's here for. But if they locked me out and I wasn't supposed to get a second copy of the file, I really don't want to give away my "accidental" solution, if the programmers are going to try and lock me out from getting more than one copy of the file per day. I just happen to have two Windows installations on my computer, Vista Home Premium x64 on one hard drive, and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on an alternative hard drive, and until I decide if I am going to keep or destroy Vista Home Premium (HP Factory Installed), this computer came with 2 Hard Drives because it is a Media Center PC that was meant for storage of media files on the extra (non-system) hard drive, and I am using it to experiment with two Windows operating systems, and a home office desktop computer, a moderate amount of media file viewing and storage (mostly on an external drive) to speak of, since this is capable of either. I hope that GOTD doesn't consider downloading a copy of the giveaway for each Windows environment as excessive, since I want to see how it will work in either, and I wasn't sure I would stick with Windows 7 when I first installed it. Also I could never predict which Windows installation I would be using, Vista or 7, when I would wish to use an application, and I might need the application in one or the other and I can't predict ahead of time how it would all sort out, so I install it in both if I know it is something that I find useful and think is something I will need. Although now I am certain I will keep Windows 7, and I am sure I am most probably keeping Vista now, because there are some free apps that HP included with the factory installation, that I do not have the money to go out and buy right now, or ever. I also put a lot of time and effort into personalizing visualizations, and other files and folders, and I don't want to get rid of Vista after all of that personal investment, even though I spend the majority of my time using the Windows 7 installation. Is that greedy to use the GOTD on each Windows installation? It never even occured to me how GOTD felt about that matter, other people have downloads for their loved ones laptops and desktop computers I suspect, I just happen to be a single human, with non computer literate kitty family.
I really do appreciate the work of the moderators, and the efforts of GOTD and the fine products they and the software programmers provide for us at no charge. Be well and find peace and prosperity.
Hi, tekknokat, I'm sorry, that you could not get a second copy of the Easeus Partition Master.
I don't know why you had that problem.
There is no moderator/administrator checking and counting every user and their downloads.
Normally you may download and install as many copies as you need. There may be a few exceptions, with those developers, who want a registration with your personal data.
That's not the fact with yesterday's GOTD.
I didn't hear about the 502 bad gateway error for a long time. That problem was temporary and is solved. So if you have still such errors, you should check your system. There can be several reasons for a broken line to GOTD: your firewall, a proxi, IE has to be online (even when you use another internet browser); of course when a giveaway is very popular, the servers may be slow for a while.
Often I download and even install the daily programme several times a day - just to check the availability, when users are speaking about difficulties; and so do other mods/admins. Yesterday I didn't hear about any failures.
Look around in the forums, you'll find lots of discussions and tips to this topic.
If your problems persist, feel free to post again; the helpful techies among our users need a report about the errors and your system, and what you did when the error occurred.
Good luck!
graylox
tekknokat
Member
Thank you for your assistance Graylox. I did get my second download by the way! I appreciate you for asking. I was just afraid that I would get access disabled if I explained how, not because a human was counting the downloads but maybe an automated system that checked IP addresses, or computer user ID information that is assigned during install of the Windows operating system. This Bad Gateway Error all was happening really late at night, like during the last 90-120 minutes just before the end of the day, when the site cuts off the giveaway download for that day. Here it was 11:40 am when I posted the comment on the software review page, I installed my final activation eligible EASEUS Partition Professional around 12:30-12:45, just minutes before activation would end for the day. I can't imagine why some people couldn't get their installs activated, I've never had that happen in spite of many reports here to that result. They would need someone with more technical knowledge than I have to troubleshoot the problem from start to finish.
It just so happens that I use a free dowload manager, Download Accelerator Plus (DAP), and instead of going through the site here to request access to the download server, it just remembered the location/URL where I downloaded the .zip file the first time, and directly downloaded it from that server the second time, without going through the GOTD request for the file, which was apparently broken. I used to think that download managers were useless and couldn't figure out why people needed them, but now I understand no matter what browser one prefers, IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. they can be invaluable for speeding up downloads, even on a 22Mbps download speed broadband connection and faster, even FIOS connections benefit from one as well, because the regular broadband routes get slowed down with traffic, and it makes multiple connections to the same server and even mirrors, so that it gets the best download speed regardless of traffic conditions and bottlenecks, I thought that was all nonsense talk before, but it really works. I've got a fast connection, and sometimes it's dreadfully slow. And last night!! it saved me by getting a file when I couldn't have known where the file was located unless the download manager remembered where it got the file earlier in the day. I hope if there were mean people who were trying to limit access at the end of the night for stragglers who waited too long to get the file, I didn't give away how they should shut off access, because most days I cannot get to the download until after midnight Denver time, which is the last hour of the offer. I see the offer in the morning, but I have to run off and can't get back to my computer until 11:30 - midnight Denver time, which has always allowed me access to the files until 1:00 am Mountain Time. I don't know which time zone they shut off the giveaway, probably Pacific Time, because midnight Pacific Time in California would be 1:00 am Mountain Time here in Colorado, which has always been the cutoff time for me here.
Have a blessed day graylox!
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