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 Post subject: Help. Bonus tilepack : broken download link
PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:06 am 
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Hi, I'm newly running a registered version of winstep Xtreme 12.2. I'm entitled to download a bonus tilepack. But, nowhere can I find the download link. And I've searched for more than one hour. Im getting very frustrated.

In the email received from Winstep there is a link. Unfortunately, it is non existent (broken) :
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BONUS PACK:

Once Winstep Xtreme has been installed and is running, you can
download and install your pak of 1,000 dock tiles from:

[LINK DELETED]

Please do not forget to read the README.TXT file included in
the zip file for further instructions on using the Tile Pak.


Please help :oops:
Thank you very much :!:
Marie


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 Post subject: Re: Help. Bonus tilepack : broken download link
PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:11 am 
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I just now clicked on the link you posted and downloaded the .zip file.
Are you sure there's nothing wrong with your connection, firewall and/or provider?

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 Post subject: Re: Help. Bonus tilepack : broken download link
PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:18 pm 
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skagon wrote:
I just now clicked on the link you posted and downloaded the .zip file.
Are you sure there's nothing wrong with your connection, firewall and/or provider?


skagos' right the link works just fine.

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 Post subject: Re: Help. Bonus tilepack : broken download link
PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:53 pm 
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Thank you very much to both. You gave me the idea to click the link I inserted in this forum within the above HELP message. :o
Everything is now more than fine. :shock: :P

Except, I Wonder why I did not get the bonus pack thru the link included in my personal email. Still wondering ... :roll:

Thank you again.
I wish you a Merry Christmas :mrgreen:
Marie


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 Post subject: Re: Help. Bonus tilepack : broken download link
PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:38 pm 
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Hm... if it's a webmail service, like Hotmail or Gmail, they usually pad the address with their own weird URL code, so that the target server can know (if they are set up to do that) that the link was accessed through Google (or Microsoft or whatever), so that they get extra brownie points for their advertising prowess.
Needless to say, Google is doing the same thing even with search results; Microsoft probably as well.
In any case, the point is, if you clicked on the link through a web-mail service and for some reason the intermediate re-routing server of theirs was offline or experiencing problems, you would be unable to access the file, since their bloody redirecting servers would never redirect you to the actual file on the (existing and very much active) server you're trying to access.
You know, I really REALLY hate that crap that they pull... and all for their damned "advertising revenue"...

Ok, rant off. Merry Christmas to you too, Marie!

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