ERROR "THE FILE SOURCE IS CORRUPTED" **SOLVED**

[mr_loly_pop]

First i hope i am writing this at the right place and if not the pls do move this topic to appropriate location.

Second my native language is not English and if i make mistake then forgive me and try to understand.


Its years i have been using GSX its always one addon which have always given me a real hard time to run it and i have also tried these forums to share the problems and try to understand but finally i end up thinking and think that my money got total wasted so far as its really not possible for me to install this.

I wont talk about past but i just wanted to share where i am coming from so today i took a chance to install it again coz i did a new installation of my windows so i had to redo everything so i download the installer from the website and start installing the addon and here it happens (Refer to Attachment GSX Error)

I knew it as like always GSX will tell me to check my system on this and disable my Antivirus so here are the details

1.) I have my windows Defender disable already that was the very first think i did when i installed my windows.
2.) i use AVG Antivirus and i know its not the best but it still keep my windows working and keep it STABLE (very important)
3.) Added the extensions for the installers which are installing to AVG extension area (Refer to Attachment GSX Error 4)
4.) Disable all Components in the Antivirus and try to download again (Refer to Attachment GSX Error 3)

After all this i Still have the same ERROR.

By Default the installer is saved in the Documents folder and i tried to install it again but still no luck with it same error

Now after all this i seriously dont know whats wrong with all this coz i had a very old installer was saved in my drives so i start that installing that one and without any problems that installed with it also installed when my AVG Antivirus was ENABLE i never had to disable it.

Its defiantly NOT MY System Problem its your installer which is giving issues and i cant do more about this coz if i disable more things on my system this will totally disturb my system security systems and windows will not be stable for it, I am not a pro like you all but i do understand how things works.

Any solution is welcome and i think i have explained it everything what i could and i would like to know how to solve this issue and if someone else have this problem pls do share.

[pete_auau]

 could  be  its  your  download  manger is  at  fault  depending on  what  your  using  to  down load the  file, unlikely  its  fdst  server  at  fault  since  everyone   would have the  same issue  as  you  have

Try  a  different browser  to  download  it again   since  you  might  be  unlucky  to have  a bad  download,   run  it  as  admin as well  to install

[virtuali]

anyways seems like there is no response from any admins also

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here but, of course, you cannot expect or demand we would *always* reply outside normal business hours, and you posted on Sunday.

No, of course the problem is not the GSX installer, because if it was a sever problem on our side, it should happen to everybody so, clearly, it IS something in your system that caused the corrupted download.

This is clear from your screenshot, all 3  .BIN files have the wrong sizes, they are supposed to be as follows:

gsx_fsx_setup2-1 = 389,314 KB
gsx_fsx_setup2-2 = 390,625 KB
gsx_fsx_setup2-3 = 345,146 KB

And as you can see in your screenshot, none of the file you downloaded matches this size, the first two surely had their downloaded interrupted before it was finished, since they are a lot smaller.

Try all of these:

- Disable all security products (antivirus, firewall, etc) that might interfere with the download, and also any download managers.

- Remove the GSX_Installer folder from the Documents folder and try again

- Remove ALL cookies from fsdreamteam.com from the browser, restart the browser and try again

- Try with a different browser.

[virtuali]

Now i have no idea how the file size is on the new installer coz i never cheeked before and never bother

That's simply because some other software is interfering, preventing the download from completing.

But now how to get this full installer working and how to change your installer to download the full installer so i can get the full files coz the way your installer is downloading i cant download those files coz i dont know from which URL the installer is downloading the files. So its the installer who is downloading those files in My Documents Folder not my Chrome or any other browser.

There's nothing to change in the installer, which will always download the correct files. If it doesn't, as I've said, it can only because something else installed in your system is interfering.

Normally, this would be the antivirus or firewall but, since you said you haven't any, you cannot rule out the chance you have a REAL virus which is interfering instead.

And yes, it's entirely normal the installer would download the files under the Documents folder.

In any case, if you want to try  downloading manually, here's the direct links:

http://update.fsdreamteam.com/gsx_fsx_setup2.exe
http://update.fsdreamteam.com/gsx_fsx_setup2-1.bin
http://update.fsdreamteam.com/gsx_fsx_setup2-2.bin
http://update.fsdreamteam.com/gsx_fsx_setup2-3.bin

If you manage to download them all of them correctly, just start the gsx_fsx_setup2.exe to install.

If the direct download works, it clearly confirms the problem was caused by another software you don't know you have installed, which is blocking the download because it's not *you* doing it, but the GSX installer, since the URLs on the servers clearly work.

[virtuali]

First Thanks for the Direct links to download the full installer and all those links like charm without any issues

Which confirms the files were always correct on the server.

Second i am not sure what makes these files to stop downloading it as i still downloaded on the same system with Antivirus ON and i did not made any changes

You said you had no antivirus, now you say you turned it ON ?

As I've said in my last reply, the antivirus could be the cause, because it's might not trusting the *installer* downloading the file, but it's trusting *you* downloading the SAME files from the same URL (that's the only URL we have).

There's just no limit to the creativity antivirus developers place to hamper the correct working of your system. Yesterday I've downloaded the latest Leonardo Maddog X update, and Chrome tried to remove the download because it said it wasn't safe, and Windows Smartscreen complained as well...

[pete_auau]

tp the op  you havnt  by any  chance  got  any  malware  program  installed  as   well   since  it  might  cause  some  issue,  since  this  has  been  posted on the  fsl   forum  that the  malwarebyte    causes  the  fsl  labs   some  issues  on downloading  and  installing  their  advice  was  to remove  it  from your  pc   and  re  install it  after  the install of   fsl

[Mhbt Ba]

Good afternoon,

After having looked a few topics regarding the issue I am facing, I still cannot find any solution.
I'm still having the "source file corrupted" error message after :
-completely removed GSX and Addon Manager
- having disabled my antivirus (which is simply Windows Defender)
- cleared my browser cache
- tried to download the install from a different browser

Any other solutions please ?

[Pluskafon59]

Hello,

for me !

[Mhbt Ba]

I'm not sure if it's something related to the installer, maybe ?
There's nothing to do right now

[Jasona1972]

Hi

I am having the same problem and getting the same message at the same point in my installation. I have done everything that I see talked about in the forums here about "file source corrupted and it isn't working. After about 6 hours now and about 30 different tries at installing it I have tried everything. My last try I did all of this and it still didn't work.

1. I turned off AV and firewall
2. I cleared all history on both Internet browsers
3. I made sure that anything that the GSX install in the Control Panel was removed
4. I uninstalled from C drive AddOn Manager
5. I made sure that the Documents / GSX Installer folder was deleted
6. I emptied recycle bin
7. I did disk cleanup on all drives
8. I restarted the computer
9. I downloaded the file from FSDreamTeam
10. I installed it only to get the error

I did the above again and installed from the installer in the download folder instead of installing from the link on the browser and got the error message. I did it again but tried installing but downloaded it to a different location and got an error message when I installed it. I did the above again and download it onto a flash drive from a different computer and still got the error message when I installed it.

Please give me a real solution and not some work around that just happens to work.

Thanks
Jason

[virtuali]

I just downloaded both the FSX version and the P3D version of the GSX installer, and I cannot reproduce the "source file corrupted" error. I also verified all the MD5 checksums for all files, and they are as they are supposed to be.

- Clear your browser cache.

- Remove this folder:

Documents\GSX_Installer

- Download again, be sure you use the latest installer ( the small setup.exe ) from our site, and be sure you are launching THAT copy, it's possible your browser could create a duplicate  ( gsx_fsx_setup(1).exe, for example ), if you have an older copy of it in the same Download folder. If you have, best remove the old copy first.

[Jasona1972]

As I said in my first message, I already did all of those things and it still didn't work. Why would you guys have an installer that doesn't work unless a person clears browser history and deletes folders from certain locations. The fact that you have made such an installer blows my mind. Anyway, what you suggested doesn't work. Please give me a real solution.

[virtuali]

As I said in my first message, I already did all of those things and it still didn't work.

But since AFTER you posted, I tested the download and it's perfectly fine, there must be a problem on your side, so I added some suggestions, for example to check you are really starting the installer you downloaded.

Why would you guys have an installer that doesn't work unless a person clears browser history and deletes folders from certain locations. The fact that you have made such an installer blows my mind.

Do you REALLY thing we "made" an installer that "requires" that ? OF COURSE it doesn't "require" that, the installer works without having to do anything like that and we obviously haven't programmed anything like that in the installer.

However, the way the network and the browser works, might occasionally require that, because:

- You are NOT downloading from "our server". We host thousands each day, there's no way anybody could download anything if they all connected to "our server", it would either be impossibly slow, or most likely crash for the load.

- Because of the above, we MUST use Cloudflare (like millions of other sites out there ), which is a CDN of 250+ servers spread around the world, so you are hopefully downloading from Cloudflare node that is closer to you.

- Normally, when we update a file, we flag it to erase it from the Cloudflare cache, so they'll try to get the latest version anew, and this is usually very fast ( less than 30 seconds ), but sometimes for some nodes might take more than normal, hours or even days.

- If you happen to be on a "slow" node that hasn't got the update WHILE you were downloading, your browser cached the request, maybe not for all files, but only one of them.

THAT'S WHY I told to clear the browser cache! Not because "our installer requires is", but because you might be out of luck and got a slow node AND your browser cached it too.

And of course, since you are not the only one that posted in this thread, I replied with all the suggestions you said you already tried, because my answer could be useful to others, even if it doesn't apply to you.

So, you want a "real solution" ? First, we must understand which file is still outdated. Check this free utility:

http://getmd5checker.com/

And run it against the files downloaded in the Documents\GSX_Installer folder. Check the main setup too ( gsx_fsx_setup.exe or gsx_p3d4_setup.exe ). These are the correct MD5 checksums that I get when I download the GSX installer here, which works:



d0b6ae0452e076d80b4582f6b8af5886 gsx_fsx_setup.exe
af4c84e1abef76769522193de4ee9eca gsx_fsx_setup2.exe
ff6c8864236d612fd663cfc2ede521fd gsx_fsx_setup2-1.bin
f9fdec2b5357d0f5f82e7b89d34bb40e gsx_fsx_setup2-2.bin
ae226c5ccc2da446dbb96fd5a3951d22 gsx_fsx_setup2-3.bin

2226cb9b73d6d5ece8229abef611e6f8 gsx_p3d4_setup.exe
dd47256167058609981e51e9b8330488 gsx_p3d4_setup2.exe
b7be499f5a2682fd05b7cae46b6946a1 gsx_p3d4_setup2-1.bin
37027b7f335cba1cd5abb9a4e510cde8 gsx_p3d4_setup2-2.bin
0cc6457da1fbe2079638fa6e32f72061 gsx_p3d4_setup2-3.bin
bedabef11d01427b3aeb6017d1555312 gsx_p3d4_setup2-4.bin
896296ec2bfb512908ec14c62eafc142 gsx_p3d4_setup2-5.bin


Compare with the files you have, so I might try forcing refresh for that file again, so it might hopefully "wake up" your local Cloudflare node to get it.

[Mhbt Ba]

Good evening,

Thank you for your reply. I tried all the things you advised, but I still have the same issue, no matter what.
Is there really nothing else we can do ?

Best regards

[virtuali]

Thank you for your reply. I tried all the things you advised, but I still have the same issue, no matter what.

It doesn't seem you tried what I suggested in my last post. Checking the downloaded files to see which one you got wrong.