XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.misc, alt.windows7.general, microsoft.   
   ublic.windowsxp.general   
   From: java@evij.com.invalid   
      
   On 07/06/2024 16:33, Paul wrote:   
   > On 6/7/2024 10:50 AM, Auric__ wrote:   
   >> Java Jive wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On a whim yesterday, I decided to search for the filename parts of the   
   >>> above URLs, and succeeded in finding copies to download.   
   >> [snip]   
   >>> All this suggests that there is a good chance that other downloads   
   >>> previously thought to be broken may in fact be obtainable by suitable   
   >>> searching.   
   >>   
   >> All of the "msecnd.net" links are 404 for me.   
      
   Yes the original links are all dead now, so what you have to do is copy   
   each link from the list into the clipboard, and then paste it into the   
   WayBack Machine to see if they've archived it, which it seems almost   
   certain they will have, then note the date of the archive, and be sure   
   that when you repeat for the next part of the download, you use the same   
   date's archive for the remaining parts (although the date will be the   
   same, the time will be a little later, denoting the WayBack Machine   
   going serially through a site to archive it), as per the example I gave   
   for ie11-win7.   
      
   > I tested one and it seemed to work (it was going to download but I closed   
   it).   
   >   
   > I don't remember the details, but some of the backups of large files   
   > from Microsoft were damaged. If you get a large file that was supposed   
   > to be 4.7GB say, and you grab the archive.org one and it is only 3GB,   
   > that is not a fault of archive.org . On the day archive.org downloaded   
   > the file, only 3GB of it was on the Microsoft server.   
   >   
   > If you check dates in archive.org later on (after Microsoft fixed the   
   server),   
   > then you get the proper 4.7GB one.   
      
   Possibly, I can't comment on that.  I went only as far as checking the   
   actual two that I stated, which I chose because those were the ones that   
   earlier upthread you had noticed were f*d at a different set of WayBack   
   URLs.   
      
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