How to keep filters save... ??

Hello peeps
Im posting my 1st post here because i need some help and i cant find the awnser myself

I had to reinstall FF on Win7..
But HOW do i keep the FF filters save for next time..
I hate redownloading 400+ filters again ..
I had made some backup but i missed things orso they wont show up..

What do i need the backup for next time..
And little 2nd Question the Online download is fine for keeping up with new filters...
But for 400+ its way to much hassle..
So i used the "obsolete" online from within FF ... thats what its called in FF

That goes Soso ..but it taskes AGES before the list is made..
And then AGES before the thumbs are loaded ..
And to make it even more unfriendly .. evertime i see a
"preview thumnail not loading"
error the whole download page Quits and all is lost...

Sure there must be a good fast en secure way to get the filters i need back without it taking 2 days or more...

Thnx for any advice

Chris B.

BAR-CODE

Chris, welcome to Filter Forge!

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KGtheway2B wrote: (Right?)

Right. The library filters are located in
%APPDATA%\Filter Forge\System\
(by default it is C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge\System).

'My filters' are located in %APPDATA%\Filter Forge\My Filters
(by default it is C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge\My Filters).

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BAR-CODE wrote: But i gues that the Redownloading must go one by one ?

Well, you can purchase the whole filter library on a CD for just EUR 14.95. This is the most speedy way I can think of.

An alternative would be to use the built-in filter browser. Instead of downloading the 400 filters at once try downloading by smaller portions, for example, select 50 filters and download them, then repeat.

wait, you're downloading the same filters over and over again? that shldnt happen, ever! it sounds like something in windows 7 is screwed up, maybe a permissions thing? i know vista had troubles like this with some stuff. check your folder location where the filters are being downloaded to and see if there's something blocking permissions. i dont have win7 yet, so i cant advise you exactly, but i dont think this is a server issue or a library download issue, per se. i think this is most likely on your end and with it being win7, which is completely new, it wouldnt surprise me if it's a persmissions thing.

but, it could even be worse than that. sorry, i dont like being the harbinger of doom here, but if you've got a harddrive going bad, i've seen that exact condition of downloading something and it not truly saving because the harddrive is screwing up. if it's a completely new machine, hardware and win7, then it's like NOT this. but, if it's an older machine you've had for a couple years and used a lot and you just put win7 on as an upgrade, it could be the drive failing.

also, what's your internet connection like? are you on dial-up, wireless, dsl, cable, satellite or what?

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So i used the "obsolete" online from within FF ... thats what its called in FF That goes Soso ..but it taskes AGES before the list is made.. And then AGES before the thumbs are loaded .. And to make it even more unfriendly .. evertime i see a "preview thumnail not loading" error the whole download page Quits and all is lost...

ok, i use this method exclusively and it works for me just fine, both in filter forge version 1.xx and 2.xx. i have two computers with both 1 and 2 on each and each one can and does download just fine from the sever. yes, the server does get goofy sometimes, maybe once a month or so, and if you log in around 11:30 p.m. central standard time, you may experience delays due to the site being backed up and/or maintenance, but other than that the server is working fine. i checked it earlier and had no problems whatsoever.

so, i am once again suggesting that something odd is going on on your side of things. are you running your computers through a firewall and a router? have you run a tracert to the site to see if there is a throughput problem? are you running double firewalls? is your isp blocking/censoring something? is your anti-virus doing an active scan of your downloads? are you running any active security scanning, as in some of the anti-malware software?

i can click on and download 1000 or more filters at a time with no errors. i exclusively use the 'obsolete' method found in the options and it works just fine. i use this method on all four instances of FF and it shld not take hours. i have a 6.0 dsl connection.

also, filters are saved automatically when downloaded. you dont have to do anyhthing special. and the filters once downloaded are instantly available to FF; you dont even have to reboot, like in some programs. just click on the categories in the upper left of FF.

also, one last thing... you can usually tell when the server is acting up as you'll start to see posts in the forums here about cant download, cant connect, etc. we're not getting any of those currently.

so, if all of your computers are running through the same internet connection/modem/router, i'd seriously check out your win7 configurations for this because if all four computers are runniing through the same net connection system and you're getting the same download errors on all four and others are connecting just fine, then it shld be your configuration is screwy or your throughput to the server is being stalled somewhere. a tracert shld find where, if that's the case.

I gues you didnot read the thread ..

Chris

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KGtheway2B wrote: Why don't you just download the filters as you need them?

hi chris,

yes, i didnt think it was win7 either after you mentioned the other three computers, but i'm just using the kitchen sink method to try and find what's going on.

seeing that you just recently posted this morning, i loaded FF and tried to download again. i picked about 30 filters and they downloaded in about 20 seconds. so, at least for my throughput route, there is no server problem.

are all your comptuters going through the same router or firewall? are they proxied? are they all on a Lan? if it's not the computers and it's not the server at FF (because i just tried it and it worked fine) then it's got to be what's going on between your computers and the server and that means modem, routers, firewalls, isp, other connections/nodes along the route from you to the server.

did you try a tracert to the server or to this site?

in the FF 'tools - options - online tab' are you using the 'automatic (recommended)' setting or one of the others?

Just to ad some "proof" that is a problem on FF side..
I had the same error over and over again .. it contained a file number

6863,1 ..
so i checked and found out it was the filter named "the ring to rule em all" in the Misc. folder...
Once i manualy on the site dowloaded THAT specific filter ..
The error in the internal browser was gone, when i clicked hide dowloaded filters.
So the thumbnail was not dowloaded anymore .. and the error and crash was gone..

The same errors stayed for un named files btw...

So here you go .. nothing the customer can do about Bad files on a server RIGHT

Chris

very odd, chris. you'd think others would have been having the same problem if it was a truly bad file. quite odd.

so, is it working faster now? can you download multiples again?

well, i'm glad it's at least better. still strikes me as odd, but since i dont have any more suggestions, maybe the official tech support can lend an ear here.