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donna123 · 16/07/2008 22:44

I have used skype to receive files with no problems for over a year. Last week (and this week) I had a problem: does anyone know why it happened and what I can do to fix it?
The window showed the progress of the file transfer, as per usual, but when it got to 100% transferred it gave an error message of 'file transfer failed. unable to write file'. In the folder where I receive it, it is described as a PART FILE.
Help!

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zebramama · 17/07/2008 10:31

Was it a .exe file? Your firewall / antivirus might have blocked it.
There are some other extensions that also get blocked like .scr, .bat, .vbs etc.

Or did you run out of disk space?

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donna123 · 18/07/2008 08:13

They are not .exe files, just data files.
It is not a problem with space: I have been doing this for a year with no problem (I regularly clear out the folder to the recycle bin).
It may be my antivirus (Bullguard) being too efficient: it won't let me paste emoticons to e-mails anymore thesedays.