Sigh! You've gotta be freakin' kidding me! If you've been following this blog, you'll know I had to replace all of the 2,000 plus download links here when ZippyShare died at the end of April 2023. I replaced a majority of those with Imagenetz links. Yesterday, I got some comments about newly dead links. That shouldn't be happening, since these new links no longer die from inactivity like ZippyShare links sometimes did. I investigated a bit, and found that over 300 Imagenetz links have died!
This is really strange. Imagenetz links are supposed to stay for a minimum of 500 days if there's no activity. That's clearly not the case. And it doesn't seem to be related to copyright issues either, since I haven't gotten any warnings and there's no clear pattern to which links are dying. I surmise it's just a case of links dying for no good reason whatsoever. This happened sometimes with ZippyShare links too. But over 300 in a month is very upsetting. I don't want to be constantly playing whack-a-mole with fixing links.
About 500 of the new links are with Upload.ee. As far as I can tell, those links don't seem to be dying, thank God. So I'm going to try to replace the newly dead Imagenetz links with Upload.ee ones, then cross my fingers and hope for the best. The problem with Upload.ee is that it has a very slow and clumsy interface. I can only upload three zip files at a time, whereas I could realistically do about 30 at a time with Imagenetz. So it may take me many days to fix all these links, and who knows, even more may die in the meanwhile.
If anyone has other suggestions on good file sharing services, please let me know. I've moved away from Mega, since they're too harsh on the copyright issue. (I still have a few hundred Mega links of all unreleased material, but I'd like to get rid of those eventually.) I don't want to put all my eggs in the Upload.ee basket. But if the Imagenetz links keep randomly dying, I should probably replace all those links eventually. Sigh!
Thank you. Having just discovered your blog, I absolutely LOVE what you're doing and am staggered by how prolific you are.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the issues my friend!
ReplyDeleteThx for the job.Sorry 4 the troubles but dont worry,we "ll be patient and yr site will always be the first i check everyday when i get up Take care
ReplyDeleteUse Workupload. Can set the time of your links or just let the files stay as is. They last a long time. Then again I suggested that & others when you had the problem.
ReplyDeleteI could try that. But I saw one music blogger who uses Workupload and complained that many of his links mysteriously disappear. So I don't see how that would be much better. I don't see how so many of these file sharing services can have that problem and stay in business. :(
DeleteHere's the mention I found:
Deletehttps://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2021/12/workupload-down-again.html
Paul, maybe there location, bad connection speeds, who knows, I have the fastest speed I can run & lots of RAM, but it is location, IMHO (?), using Workupload for about 4 years & no issues EVER on my end, anyway, seems my advise is always ignored or not taken seriously, having run BLOGs since 2000, my thoughts fall on deaf earsso, on your own, I'll keep to myself from now on & not comment anymore.
DeleteMust say on the other end (downloading) Upload.ee is fast and very easy to use -swings and roundabouts
ReplyDeleteThat's good to hear. Although I don't know what swings and roundabouts means.
DeleteI've heard it from Script for a Jester's Tear by Marillion. Fish, though, loses on the swings *and* on the roundabouts. Originally, AFAIK it means one thing that has advantages has just as many disadvantages ... See this dictionary website: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/62/messages/97.html
DeleteWow! I'm very sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions. It seems each filehosting service that I'm aware of, has one problem or another. Thanks again for your tireless efforts.
ReplyDeleteAnother site I frequent now uses this. Perhaps it'll work? It says "Upload as much data as you want, download without speed limits and share files with friends without additional costs!". Perhaps? KRAKENFILES.COM
ReplyDeleteThanks. Can you point me to the music blog that uses that? I'd like to ask that person if they've been having trouble with that file sharing service.
DeleteSure...been visiting here quite often over the years. He switched to this not long ago. https://so-many-roads-boots.blogspot.com/
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