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What if the announced file is not at Garbo?

The very first thing to do is ensure that you have to the file name and the directory right. User errors in this respect are very common. Especially, if the announcement which you are looking at is not very recent, it is possible that the file has been updated again. Occasionally, some updates come at rapid succession. Get the relevant update of Garbo's file lists and make sure that you have the current file name and path. If you are a WWW user, you can check about a file also from Garbo Indexes Grep Search.

If you are using a WWW browser like Netscape, make sure to get a new version of the relevant file list rather than the old one from your local cache. If necessary, clear the memory and disk caches and then reload the index anew. This goes as well as for downloading the file lists as for connecting directly to Garbo directories.

Many users get files from Garbo's mirrors all around the world. If the announcement is recent, the file may not yet be at a mirroring site if you try to get the file from a Garbo mirror. Besides, the mirror might be lacking some of the file sections. Any errors and deficiencies at a Garbo mirror are solely the mirror's and its administration's problems.

Errors in the announced file name or the directory path at Garbo are very uncommon, even if the "hand-written" file lists can quite well have errors. For example Garbo's upload announcement "thank you" notes are made semi-automatically to prevent the possibility of typing errors. In case the problem concerns a Garbo file you can make an additional check by looking at

The only, very rare case, where there actually might be a discrepancy between the file index and the name of the file at Garbo, is if you have managed to contact Garbo at very the moment when an update of the file list is being created by Garbo's scripts right after an update. Such a problem should normally disappear within a minute. Reload the index.

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