I'm not sure if this is in the right place, but trying never hurt anybody. Anyway my question goes as follows:

Has anyone else have troubles with uploading freebie objects for different software products? Such as planet and moon files not working in Mojoworld, or Objects not working in Bryce or anything for Terragen? I've gotten an error while trying to upload some planet files for Mojoworld, but when I go to open it, I get a message saying it doesn't match or the file was corrupted. Yet on my old computer, I never got that problem before. So does anybody have any help or suggestions?

And if this is in the wrong place, I am sorry, but I didn't see a actual place to put this thread.

This is probably the question for the Freestuff forum.

But may be you should try archive (zip) your upload files before uploading them.

Um I'm not talking about MY uploads, I am talking about having troubles with downloading OTHER's freebie stuff. It's their files that are coming up corrupted in my program files.

Quote - Um I'm not talking about MY uploads, I am talking about having troubles with downloading OTHER's freebie stuff. It's their files that are coming up corrupted in my program files.

I have no issues, like you mention.
If you have a new PC & the old one is fine...what has changed?! Do you have some malware sniffer or antivirus that could be checking/corrupting any downloaded data. Also is it only data from Renderosity that you have an issue with or from any site ?!

This should help to start finding the root cause at least.

BTW:
I can relate to Slavs comment as your 1st post reads "anyone else have troubles with uploading freebie objects for different software products".
I assume you meant downloading :)

I`m moving this thread to FreeStuff forum. May be guys there can give you some advice.

Slav has moved this thread from the MojoWorld forum to the Freestuff forum as of Tuesday, November 4, 2008 8:55 pm.

I have had troubles downloading some LWO files which appear corrupted but switched to Blender to down load them and then saved them as Obj. files.  Blender is free and although somewhat difficult to use as a modeling program, it does this well.  It also has opened and downloaded Obj. files which Poser/Wings couldn't.  You might try it.

Where, exactly, are you having problems?

Is it during the unpacking process?

For instance, if you download ABCoolStuff.zip and the zip decompressor gives you an error, that could be one of two things.

1) Your file is corrupted.
2) Your zip utility is not compatible with the format you're trying to decompress.

Solution:
a) Download the file again. 
b) Download the newest version of the decompression utility for the format you are trying to decompress. 

(WinRar is generally good as is 7-Zip and PkWare's "Winzip".  With those, you can handle just about any compressed archive file format commonly used.)

Note: There ARE some compatibility issues with compressing a file using one utility and decompressing it with another even using the same base format.  I've had problems decompressing .rar files simply due to the file being compressed under one version release and it not being compatible with another across two different programs.

If you are having problems actually using the files in your application, then that's a different issue and you should probably try to PM/email the creator.

Quote - I have had troubles downloading some LWO files which appear corrupted but switched to Blender to down load them and then saved them as Obj. files.  Blender is free and although somewhat difficult to use as a modeling program, it does this well.  It also has opened and downloaded Obj. files which Poser/Wings couldn't.  You might try it.

Ugh...

I remember a problem with .lwo files, version 6, IIRC and trying to find a converter or a workflow that would spit out a .obj file.  /shiver  Nothing, would do it and finally the host for the file was good enough to get me a .obj.

There are a lot of 3D object converters out there.  I've had some good luck using this: http://web.t-online.hu/karpo/  (3D Object Converter)  It's shareware and handles a great many formats. 

Whenever I try to open any compatible file, such as .ter and .sur files for Terragen, an error comes up: "File is not compatible with this version." Or "Version file number doesn't match." I get the second error, on both terragen and Mojoworld. For Mojoworld its the planet files, moon files, and sometimes landscape files. I never ever get those errors with Bryce.

Those problems listed above isn't just from this site, I get it from other sites as well. I don't know why its happening on this computer more than my old one. With my old one, sometimes the file itself was corrupted, and fixing it was just to download it from another place. I can't do that with this computer, either the person changed the name, or whoever had the download removed it. Or my computer just hates me.

I downloaded that 7-Zip program I'll see if that was the problem, being that my WinRaR might be on the ancient side.

Quote - Whenever I try to open any compatible file, such as .ter and .sur files for Terragen, an error comes up: "File is not compatible with this version." Or "Version file number doesn't match." I get the second error, on both terragen and Mojoworld. For Mojoworld its the planet files, moon files, and sometimes landscape files. I never ever get those errors with Bryce.

Those problems listed above isn't just from this site, I get it from other sites as well. I don't know why its happening on this computer more than my old one. With my old one, sometimes the file itself was corrupted, and fixing it was just to download it from another place. I can't do that with this computer, either the person changed the name, or whoever had the download removed it. Or my computer just hates me.

Do you always get that problem on those same exact files (not filetypes) or is it intermittent?  Sometimes, programs can get "confused" about version information regarding files if there was a corruption somewhere in another one.  I don't know anything about the programs you're using though.

You can also try "gzip" http://www.gzip.org/  if necessary and check it's compressed file formats.  I can't remember if you'll have to run that in command-line mode or not.

I'm not sure how this relates to files that are in proprietary formats (tur/sur etc).  Those are compressed, to be sure, but only specialized apps will be able to work with them.

I guess the best thing to do is make sure everything is updated, get your archive unpackers updated, run some utilities to tidy up the ol' comp and then, drop back and punt!  Good luck!