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DDI Updater Stalls

Everything seems to be working, so I just uploaded a new set of files. You can grab them from Hero Lab's updates mechanism - once they're downloaded, run the new downloader and it should be able to process the new Compendium data.

I also added some code which I hope will help people who suddenly start seeing a lot of "!!!!!!!!" half way through their download, so please let me know if you run into that again.

Hope this helps!
 
started a download about 2 hrs ago. just checked on it's progress and in the middle of the large items section, there are two random "!" amongst the dots. What do the "!"'s mean? Should I scrap this entire download attempt or is it possibly just stating a failed attempt to grab a particular file and then reattempted it?
for now I will let it run it's course and see what happens.
 
It works great, and I just bought it.

Now for a bug report.

Melee Training. It's a feat. When selected it should ask me which stat I want to use for Melee basic attacks. After that my Melee Basic should be replaced with that stat instead of strength and my damage should be 1/2 of that stat rounded down.

It didn't give me a choice of which stat to use. But wow... this is a nice app.

My question about power cards was answered... They show the weapons you select as equipped on the appropriate page. Would be nice if instead of running together, each weapon had its own line though.
 
Diceman said:
started a download about 2 hrs ago. just checked on it's progress and in the middle of the large items section, there are two random "!" amongst the dots. What do the "!"'s mean? Should I scrap this entire download attempt or is it possibly just stating a failed attempt to grab a particular file and then reattempted it?
for now I will let it run it's course and see what happens.
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The !s are a failure to grab a file (one ! per file). If it's just a couple of them, don't worry about it - the downloader should automatically retry them once everything else is done, and hopefully they'll download correctly then. Definitely just let it finish. :)
 
Colen said:
The !s are a failure to grab a file (one ! per file). If it's just a couple of them, don't worry about it - the downloader should automatically retry them once everything else is done, and hopefully they'll download correctly then. Definitely just let it finish. :)
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Thank you for the clarification. I figured you would say that. I finished the dowload and the program seems to be running great.(granted only demo version atm)
I am glad I found this product. The ability to add custom items to the database is a BIG reason I will be purchasing HL.
Thanks again.
 
Wow - that was wicked fast customer service! I tried it again and it worked just fine. I am building a PC as we speak (to test out the system) and am very pleased with what I see so far.

Thanks for this tool - very very cool Lone Wolf! Very Cool!
 
So... I just downloaded the demo (V3.6e), and I'm telling it to grab data from my DDI account. It said "Login secceeded.", so that seems fine, but I'm seeing nothing but a giant string of !s after "Downloading approx. 134 deity entries...". Since this seems to be all of them rather than just a couple of them, I assume I should worry about it? Any idea what might be wrong? I haven't poked around for too terribly long on this forum, so I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere, but I didn't see it so far.
 
If you are getting all !!!s it means the Wizards web page is thinking you are not logged in. I got around that by quiting the program and relogging in at a different time.

If it is just a few !!!s, then let it finish and it will go back and retry to get them.
 
Hey all had hard time running the downloader, hung up my windows 7 system :( my output.txt is to big to upload, but HL seems to be running ok.
 
SkidAce said:
If you are getting all !!!s it means the Wizards web page is thinking you are not logged in. I got around that by quiting the program and relogging in at a different time.

If it is just a few !!!s, then let it finish and it will go back and retry to get them.
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I don't think it's a "try at a different time" issue... yesterday evening, letting it run overnight, and starting it again now all have had the same results.

When I go to a browser the login works fine, and the ddidownloader starts out with "Login successful", so it seems to think it's logging in fine... but I let it run overnight and every single area was nothing but !s (roughly twice as many of them as there should be items for it to download for that section, it looks like).

I'm starting to suspect this somehow relates to my Internet Explorer settings, as I have that locked down super tight and avoid it like the plague that it is... I hate to risk letting it out of it's cave, but I'll give it a shot and see what happens.
 
Well, I got well into the Powers and then the !!!!s started appearing so I quit.

Now, I can't even get to the first set: Deities just keep starting off with !!!!s.
This is a real bummer since I see this as an alternative to the CB itself which I have yet to run problems. I run a Linux box and while I have Windows XP in Virtualbox, the CB is slow, laggy and crashes. I can't use it on Linux as Moonlight won't parse the page.

As for Hero Lab, I've been trying it in Wine and it seems to run with no problems. I just can't get the ddidownloader to work.

Very frustrating and I'd like some suggestions as I'm waiting to buy based on whether it's actually going to work or not.

Thanks.
 
Right now Wizards is having some difficulties (to be gentle) with their new web based Character Builder System... I wouldn't be surprised that the system drain put on their servers is potentially messing up downloads via ddidownloader.

However, when you re-ran ddidownloader, did you first choose to delete your data? I wonder if it's bumping up against itself possibly.
 
cryptoknight said:
Right now Wizards is having some difficulties (to be gentle) with their new web based Character Builder System... I wouldn't be surprised that the system drain put on their servers is potentially messing up downloads via ddidownloader.

However, when you re-ran ddidownloader, did you first choose to delete your data? I wonder if it's bumping up against itself possibly.
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I did not but will try that. And yeah, I figured they might just have some server overload too... their site seems to hang often for me for some reason anyway...
 
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