One of our members neVenCLJ has been experiencing FAH client restarting at 0% for both the Windows GUI and Console client. I can imagine his frustration over it when it happened more than one occasion. I would be very frustrated if I see my work 94% complete and have to start from 0%. This is hours of lost work and wasted energy usage. The reason for the client restarting at 0% is due to corrupted checkpoints. Checkpoints can be corrupted due to improper shutdown of the client and this can be due to power blackouts for example. Although one can argue that the client should not be improperly shutdown, it is no justification to corrupting a checkpoint. In my view, the current implementation of the FAH client causes checkpoint corruption way too easily.

The FAH Defence has been included with an auto backup/restore checkpoint feature. The new FAH Defence also works for FAH504-console.exe console client. The current FAH Defence only works for single client in a single computer. For those people who have multi-core CPU running more than 1 FAH client, they MUST NOT use the FAH Defence.

There are currently 2 FAH Defence executables. One for WinSMP and the other for FAH504-console. The next release will only have 1 executable.

Comments on how to improve the FAH Defence is welcomed. The FAH Defence is constantly being improved albeit at a very slow pace because I do have a fulltime job :)

Instructions on how to use the FAH Defence can be found here. The instructions are for WinSMP client but the only difference with the console client is that the FAH Defence does not prompt for a password.

The FAH Defence executables can be found in the 2 links below. There is only 1 executable now. Please download from “3rd Party Programs” section in the left column of this webpage.

DOWNLOAD FAH DEFENCE FOR WINSMP

DOWNLOAD FAH DEFENCE FOR FAH504-CONSOLE

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