Same Name, overwrite - incomplete downloads

[SecureCloud-biz]

First of all, Thank you for this amazing tool..

Second.. I have a folder with about 350 gig of .lynda files in it (on a laptop 760gig drive) and i'm not even close to being done.. lol .. but I freed up a 1 TB, copied everything over & SQLite file..

(from what i have read, it looks like they changed things up).. i have been holding these files for a couple months.. this project got put on hold.. i also saved a copy of the extracted Desktop App that I can use without using the download one everytime.. so i do have an old(er) version if that matters.

background.. 16yrs PHP and all front-end tech, Python, VB.NET, some C++.. the only C# is changing existing scripts, never studied it tho.. (which came in handy here)..

i am running from a batch file, here it is: thanksLynda.bat (lol)

@ECHO OFF

PUSHD "D:\d"

ECHO Current dir: "%CD%"

LyndaDecryptor /D "D:\ldc_courses" /OUT "D:\ldc_converted" /DB "D:\db\db.sqlite"

PAUSE

PUSHD "D:\"

so let me begin with 2 or 3 problems I have found:

(I am compiling w/ Visual Studio Enterprise 2015)

* Yes, there are names that are the same, as i found out the hard way

as you can see, what I did was add,

* Decryptor.cs *
var courseID = "[" + CleanPath(videoInfo.CourseID) + "]";
newPath = Path.Combine(OutputDirectory.FullName, courseID + "___" + CleanPath(videoInfo.CourseTitle), ....
(for simpleTitle & complexTitle)

I found this out because I was seeing the: [DEC] File " + decryptedFilePath + " exists already but seems to differ in size... so i added some Console.ReadKey(); and i kept deleting the done ones, then made a test folder & ran from there, narrowed it down. but honestly it has made it easier for me to also have the CourseID (as I have ALOT of videos & I wanna keep track)

that fixed that issue.. :+1:

* I know some of the courses haven't finished downloading yet, (maybe 5%), (sorry, i know..)

i am on a different 8 core sooo.. trying to make due without restarting downloading and finishing all of them yet. I downloaded these on my programming machine and if your like me, you run outta room very quickly.

the next problem is:

System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path. it's as close to the root path as I can get, no spaces in path names, the names from Lynda should be safe, so I don't get it.. i am not sure if once the program gets to a folder that hasn't been downloaded all the way, if that's what creates the error?

But I have been stumped.. I have tried looking up C# - ArgumentException, Exceptions.. if you seen what my code is turning into, you would laugh at me.. I have tried all these (together)

WriteToConsole("[TJ01] e.ToString: " + e.ToString() + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine, ConsoleColor.Red);
WriteToConsole("[TJ02] e.Message: " + e.Message + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine, ConsoleColor.Red);
WriteToConsole("[TJ03] e.Source.ToString: " + e.Source.ToString() + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine, ConsoleColor.Red);
throw new Exception(e.Message);

So to summarize.. I am not sure if this error is caused from half downloaded files (which by the way I been running the program, removing the folder of the CourseID it fails at, then re-run.. done that 20 or so times so far) or if there is a possibility of some illegal character in the path or filename, but I noticed you created a function for that CleanPath( ) and Decryptor( ) => InvalidPathCharacters function, but i doubt that is what it is..

How or what code can I add to "step over" unfinished download and/or path character error ??

any help would be greatly appreciated.. or if anyone experienced anything similar ?

[SecureCloud-biz]

Just as an update.. thank you for all the overwhelming comments.. 👎 I fixed all my own issues.. and continued on for an amazing 680GIG of awesomeness.. now i study all the time.

just one question for the author.. how did you come up with the key? i tried changing 1 semicolon to a period and that rendered the video useless.. so however you did it, its THE only one that would work.. my question is how did you come across that?

[Dev-iL]

You need to reverse-engineer the official client, and it's found inside. Similarly, one can tell that a hash of the video number is used to get the caption filename.

[SecureCloud-biz]

(finally someone exists.. lol).. Thank you.. I will have to remember that.. and that sounds about right about looking inside.. I'm surprised when they push an update they dont change it. thanks again..

[SecureCloud-biz]

@Dev-iL , 📫

Thanks for the reply.. its been awhile.. been programming & learning.

Anyways, a year later I needed this again & i wanted to read my old issue so its easier to make changes to the newer ver. & I remember the key I asked about.. I thought there was another way.. so i glanced.. low & behold DesktopLdc -> Lynda -> Resources -> Settings

I dont want to list it here, 'someone', from 'somewhere' might be doing a huge elastic search.. lol but it's separated into 2 parts.. I was asking before in case it changed & the author disappeared.. I see he hasn't updated the new extension..

What do you think the APP_KEY & the SECRET_KEY are for? anything useful? 😜