"Aborted" all the time!

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Edward Fox

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Aug 21, 2016, 8:20:42 PM8/21/16

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Files queued for download are shown as either queued or aborted. Nothing downloads, and most files are shown as aborted. Search function works OK.

This problem has arisen in the past month or so.

I'm using latest version of QT on latest version of Mac OS X. Port check (on Options page) shows OK. After that I'm in the dark. I've googled around & seen a lot of very technical stuff I don't understand! I have gone into the configuration of my router, & selected soulseek for port forwarding.

I turned off the firewall for a bit but it made no difference.

Advice would be welcome!

ry...@i98fm.com.au

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Aug 23, 2016, 7:55:51 PM8/23/16

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Having the same problem. Search and cue works fine, as soon as it comes to download it aborts. No idea what to do..

Haven't changed or tweaked any settings.

Not very tech savvy, so would need some simple explaining. I do know how to log into my modem/router to change settings.

Please help!! So frustrating.

Edward Fox

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Aug 23, 2016, 8:07:09 PM8/23/16

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I solved it. This may not work for you, but the moral of the story is always look for the simplest solution.

My downloads were always "aborted" because the hard drive I use for downloads wasn't accepting the downloads. What gave me the clue was looking at the Diagnostics section of SSQT. I didn't even know about the Diagnostics feature until I began tearing my hair out. You have to check/tick it in Options (or somewhere -- look around) to make it appear. Well, Diagnostics offers a menu of logs. The key one was Transfers, which gives a liberal arts graduate a fairly clear account of what's going on when SS is working. I kept seeing 'file not accepted', & the precise location of my hard drive, which suggested pretty clearly that the problem was mine. Everything else on the log suggested the download was working as it was supposed to. I did a disk utility repair on the relevant hard drive & after that things were back to normal. i'm talking about a mac computer, using capitan.

your mileage may vary!

6pairs...@gmail.com

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Nov 28, 2016, 7:47:22 PM11/28/16

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That was useful in that now they're going from Aborted to Queued. Still no downloads, but it's better than when I started.

6pairs...@gmail.com

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Nov 28, 2016, 7:48:52 PM11/28/16

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Nope. Now going again from Queued to Aborted again. WTF. I'm really scratching my head. Not much in the way of tutorials around here are there?

alex...@gmail.com

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Jan 11, 2017, 3:00:50 PM1/11/17

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Can someone please help with this problem? Or provide a customer service line?

Nir Arbel

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Jan 12, 2017, 12:42:48 AM1/12/17

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It is *very* difficult to diagnose these peer-to-peer connectivity issues.. some ISPs intentionally sabotage Soulseek peer-to-peer connections; and problems like this can happen for a variety of other reasons, like router or gateway setups that are not compatible with the way Soulseek works. Basically if your downloads keep switching from aborted to queued, there's a problem getting the file data from the other user. One thing you can try is connecting to Soulseek via a VPN like Private Internet Access and see if it makes a difference. If it does then your ISP may be doing something to hurt Soulseek traffic.

Beyond that, you can sort of see what's happening by checking Options->UI->Show Diagnostics. You should then see a log of peer activity in the Diagnostics->Peer Messenger tab. When connections fail, it should display a reason for it there, but it could be hard to pick it up from all the other information. If you want, you can try generating a log in there while the problem is happening, then copy&paste the whole thing to a text file, upload it somewhere like Dropbox and link to it in this thread. I'll take a look at it if you do.

bitto...@gmail.com

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Mar 30, 2017, 12:24:00 PM3/30/17

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This post help me to find out what my constant abort was all about.

Thank you Edward Fox!!!

mirce...@gmail.com

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May 1, 2017, 2:15:50 PM5/1/17

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Hello everyone. I was having the same problem, but I found the solution in my case.

The problem occured after I reinstalled Windows. Before that, to spare some time setting up soulseek, I've backed up my settings.

But after the reinstall, Windows 10 decided to rename my personal folder after my e-mail instead of my user name.

Hence, the download folder path from Soulseek was different to the downloads folder path on my hard disk.

So, be sure to check out the download folder path in your settings.

Cheers

crist...@gmail.com

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Jul 29, 2017, 6:10:36 AM7/29/17

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I had the same problem, with SoulseekQT and Mac OS X Sierra.

And in my case, I resolved the problem, acceding to the Get Info section of the shared Soulseek Folder, and modified the Sharing & Permisssions for "everyone" Read & Write, and downloading started inmediately!!!

The problems was that Soulseek didn't have write and read permissions for the specific folder ...

quart...@gmail.com

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Aug 10, 2017, 3:02:54 AM8/10/17

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Damn... I've been having a similar problem with downloads aborting and thought that this could be the solution but no luck. This has been happening on several different ISPs both with and without VPNs. Using SoulseekQT 2017.2.25 and MacOS 10.12.6 here.

Some typical output from Diagnostics:

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[Tue May 30 06:23:19 2017] Send PM_TRANSFER_RESPONSE message to user tonotron

[Tue May 30 06:23:19 2017] Found one existing messaging connection to user

[Tue May 30 06:23:20 2017] Disposing of socket

[Tue May 30 06:23:20 2017] Socket not identified

[Tue May 30 06:23:20 2017] Indirect obfuscated peer connection requested from user tonotron

[Tue May 30 06:23:20 2017] HandleMessage on uninitialized socket: 0x618000401ec0

[Tue May 30 06:23:20 2017] Accepted obfuscated file connection to user tonotron

[Tue May 30 06:23:20 2017] Peer obfuscated connection of type F opened from user tonotron

[Tue May 30 06:23:22 2017] Received PM_UPLOAD_FAILED message from user belcultassi

[Tue May 30 06:23:22 2017] Send PM_QUEUE_UPLOAD message to user belcultassi

[Tue May 30 06:23:22 2017] Found one existing messaging connection to user

[Tue May 30 06:23:22 2017] Received PM_TRANSFER_REQUEST message from user belcultassi

[Tue May 30 06:23:22 2017] Send PM_TRANSFER_RESPONSE message to user belcultassi

[Tue May 30 06:23:22 2017] Found one existing messaging connection to user

[Tue May 30 06:23:22 2017] Indirect obfuscated peer connection requested from user belcultassi

[Tue May 30 06:23:22 2017] Indirect connection request of type P to Lolo51 expired, removing.

[Tue May 30 06:23:23 2017] Disposing of socket

[Tue May 30 06:23:23 2017] Identified as peer connection request socket

[Tue May 30 06:23:23 2017] Request found, removing

[Tue May 30 06:23:23 2017] HandleMessage on uninitialized socket: 0x608000411620

[Tue May 30 06:23:23 2017] Accepted obfuscated file connection to user belcultassi

[Tue May 30 06:23:23 2017] Peer obfuscated connection of type F opened from user belcultassi

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Received PM_UPLOAD_FAILED message from user swkennedy

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Send PM_QUEUE_UPLOAD message to user swkennedy

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Found one existing messaging connection to user

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Received PM_TRANSFER_REQUEST message from user swkennedy

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Send PM_TRANSFER_RESPONSE message to user swkennedy

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Found one existing messaging connection to user

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Indirect obfuscated peer connection requested from user swkennedy

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] HandleMessage on uninitialized socket: 0x618000408010

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Accepted obfuscated file connection to user swkennedy

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Peer obfuscated connection of type F opened from user swkennedy

[Tue May 30 06:23:27 2017] Response obfuscated connection to indirect request from swkennedy, type F opened

[Tue May 30 06:23:28 2017] Disposing of socket

[Tue May 30 06:23:28 2017] Socket not identified

[Tue May 30 06:23:28 2017] Disposing of socket

[Tue May 30 06:23:28 2017] Identified as peer connection request socket

[Tue May 30 06:23:28 2017] Request found, removing

Nir Arbel

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Aug 10, 2017, 5:09:03 PM8/10/17

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Hey, quartzcity, is this happening to you with all (or most) users? We can try and set up a test session over Hangouts to see what's happening under the hood when you try downloading from me.

quart...@gmail.com

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Aug 10, 2017, 10:56:03 PM8/10/17

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Following up with myself here. I removed all Soulseek preferences and relaunched. Aborts are gone for now.

Nir Arbel

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Aug 11, 2017, 5:53:52 PM8/11/17

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Oh, good to hear! When you reset the client configuration it randomly generates a port to listen on. It might have picked a less problematic one.

knaf...@gmail.com

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Oct 18, 2017, 4:34:13 AM10/18/17

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hi, had the same problem out of the blue yesterday...no success with the mentioned solutions so finaly i gave up and deleted slskqt from my computer and restart with a new username and...voila ! it's working fine(so far...)

robbeyr...@gmail.com

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Jan 25, 2018, 5:59:32 PM1/25/18

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Hello mate - was wondering if you could help us? bought a brand new PC with Windows 10 and all my attempted Spotify downloads queue, then abort, immediately - below is my Peer Messenger Diagnostics. Thank's!

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:10 2018] Send PM_QUEUE_UPLOAD message to user pjotr56

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:10 2018] Did not find messaging connection to user, queueing unsent message

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:10 2018] Attempting peer connection of type P to user pjotr56

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:10 2018] Also sending indirect connection request.

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:10 2018] Indirect connection of type P to user pjotr56 failed

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:10 2018] Inspecting peer connection request of type P to user pjotr56 for possible removal.

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:10 2018] Socket found. Not removing request.

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:12 2018] Direct connection of type P to user pjotr56 failed

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:12 2018] Inspecting peer connection request of type P to user pjotr56 for possible removal.

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:12 2018] Neither socket nor indirect request found. Removing.

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] Send PM_GET_SHARED_FILES_IN_FOLDER message to user 1ted59

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] Did not find messaging connection to user, queueing unsent message

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] Attempting peer connection of type P to user 1ted59

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] Also sending indirect connection request.

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] HandleMessage on uninitialized socket: 0xa0236f0

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] Disposing of peer connection request of type P to user 1ted59

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] Found req, accepted obfuscated indirect connection to user 1ted59, connection type P

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] Sending 1 pending peer messages to user 1ted59

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:20 2018] Received PM_SHARED_FILES_IN_FOLDER message from user 1ted59

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:22 2018] Send PM_QUEUE_UPLOAD message to user 1ted59

[Thu Jan 25 22:31:22 2018] Found one existing messaging connection to user