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thanks, works great!

Thank you for your HowTo. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. I'm still getting those crappy 5.9kb files (it's the free/premium chose-page).
I'm getting crazy about that... I'm using Windows Vista, IE 7 and FF.

Any hints?

Hi...first post here, but I'm having some troubles downloading from my premium Rapidshare.com account also.

Works fine if I do one link at a time, but when i paste the links into a text file (6 of them..OR 1 at a time) it looks like its been successful, but 7 seconds later they are all 'complete'.  When I then try and open the rar file I get 'the archive is either in unknown format or damaged'.

I know the files are ok as I can download them manually.

Apologies if this is covered in another thread...I couldn't find one...Am I doing something wrong?


* Edit - using XP...nothing fancy, simple setup!

Last edited by alland (2007-09-04 2:22:37 PM)

If your files are about 5.9kb you are most likely downloading the free/priemum choose page. Make sure that part 1 adn 2 is working fully in firefox and IE (i.e that if you put in the address you dont hit a web page - the file immediatly downloads)

1. Set up rapidshare to download links directly

1.1 Go to rapidshare.com > Priemum Zone > Priemum Zone Login > Options
1.2 Check Direct-downloads
1.3 Click Save

2. Now open up your IE Browser (Not Firefox cause Orbit didnt use my firefox cookies)

2.1 Throw in a rapidshare link eg: http://rapidshare.com/files/4724217/part01.rar
2.2 Enter your account details and progress until you are presented with a download dialog box > Cancel it.
2.3 Re paste in your rapid share link eg: http://rapidshare.com/files/4724217/part01.rar <------ *** at this stage it should immediately download __ make sure it is! ***

Also I run this on XP... can anyone confirm this works with Vista?

Last edited by moloth (2007-09-15 8:21:25 PM)

Try this one: http://www.rapidgrab.org/

Hello.

Instead of us doing tricks that either work (it worked for me but not for a friend's PC) or don't, wouldn't it be more convenient for all, if the devs would work on this issue?
The topic has 10 replies and 2940 atm views , maybe the devs could see the importance of this feature for their product.

Thanks.

Hmm.. I had some strange experiences on a buddies computer (was XP tho)... But to get it woking on his I also had to go to:

Tools > Preferences > Site Manager:

Site: http://rapidshare.com/
username:your_rapidshare_username
password:your_rapidshare_password

Does this help anyone?

* Edit added it to the HOWTO
* Edit: Have not had to do this again.. plz ignore

Last edited by moloth (2009-04-03 3:36:56 AM)

Well i have gotton it to work on 4 XP SP2 computers so far so I personally have no problem... but since I refuse to downgrade to Vista I cannot vouch for it.  I haven't heard from anyone on this thread if they have gotten it to work with Vista.. so yea its probably a Vista or IE7 bug.

Oh the 5kb files if you rename them to .html are most likely the Free/Premium selection page.

Last edited by moloth (2007-10-09 8:00:29 AM)

I have been successful downloading from rapidshare.com with Orbit and FireFox:

How:

1. Allow direct downloads (see post #1)
2. Before download, I login to rapidshare
3. Paste the directlink URL, and press enter
4. Voila! An Orbit "New Download" dialog box pops up with all relevant cookies filled.
5. Click OK, done

I have been queueing up to 40 downloads from rapidshare this way; never failed!

pepoluan wrote:

I have found an easier way for RapidShare Premium downloads using FF+Orbit: Install the FlashGot extension.

First, in preferences, put in your rapidshare account name & password.

Next, install the FlashGot extension (not FlashGet! FlashGOt!)

Make sure FlashGot connects to Orbit.

Ensure that Direct-Download is enabled in Rapidshare.

Don't log out of rapidshare, just close its tab.

Next time, when clicking a download link from Rapidshare, always choose FlashGot instead of Orbit Downloader.

I've tried, and it works splendidly

Orbit + FlashGot! = EXPLOSIVE DUO!
I'm using this combo for almost a year now, and it works like charm!

moloth wrote:

I refuse to downgrade to Vista I cannot vouch for it.

Couldn't possibly agree more.

Well is it still working today?  Is the RapidShare.com site down or overloaded?  This approach was working perfectly right up to last Thursday (January 24 2008) at exactly 4:00PM (EST, GMT-5).  And I mean PERFECTLY Right up to my network capacity!  I even hit the 25GB/5days limit and had to continue using a second account (see my other post about this ).

Now I can barely log on to the site manually.  If I can get through I often only get those dreaded 5KB files instead of the (mostly) 100MB RAR files I asked for.  Any idea why?  Thanks!

BTW: Direct Downloads is active in my RapidShare premium account.  The cookie is OK (I checked).  I even logged to RapidShare.com using IE (that I normally don't use anymore) instead of Firefox, all to no avail!

Last edited by iamnemo (2008-01-26 12:09:56 PM)

Thanks
it's working perfectly