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	<title>ETF2L &#8211; Latest activity in &#8220;Validating steam files???&#8221;</title>
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    	    <title>Reply by Enef</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334168</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[I just let the defrag run last night for about 20 minutes and it fixed it, no issues since.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:42:14 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Thalash</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334164</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Just wait 10-15 min, and it should fix itself. Happened to me last week aswell.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:32:38 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Dr-Gimpfen</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334161</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from Spike Himself</i>
		<blockquote>[...]

Type double backslashes  :)</blockquote>

use [ code ] Tag :D]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:23:17 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by wrock</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334157</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[when steam validates his files they have to redownload the corruptet/missing files, thats why it could take so long]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:09:30 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Spike Himself</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334144</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from severus</i>
		<blockquote>e: can't post the code as all backslashes gets deleted.</blockquote>

Type double backslashes \ :)]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:12:47 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by seve</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334140</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[That happens to me sometimes, but this fixes it for me.

Put these lines in a .bat file:

e: can't post the code as all backslashes gets deleted. http://pastebin.com/NfbUmw8K

Modify lines 2 and 3 to the HDD and directory where your steam is installed. 

When you have that problem again, just exit steam, run the .bat file and start steam again.

Of course you can also manually delete the files but this is just faster if you get the issue often.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:34:48 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by doksisthebest</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334137</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[i did re-instal the game on friday.. obviously that didnt help. Yesterdays defrag did help though... for now. Lets hope it stays that way]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:13:06 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by weaselo</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334133</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[I found a fix

Defrag your in game files (through steam, not through windows defrag) it may look like it's done until it says ready to play

If it doesn't work. Delete everything in steam apart from the .exe and steamapps then defrag again]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:46:43 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by danilovic</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334127</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Didn't like 50% of the players experience this a couple of months ago? The solution was to redownload the .gcf-files, which are:
source materials.gcf
 source models.gcf
 source sounds.gcf
 team fortress 2 client content.gcf
 team fortress 2 content.gcf
 team fortress 2 materials.gcf
 sourceinit.gcf
 winui.gcf
 multiplayer ob binaries.gcf
 orangebox media.gcf
 source 2007 shared materials.gcf
 source 2007 shared models.gcf
 source 2007 shared sounds.gcf

Source: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1563649&#38;page=2]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:43:54 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Enef</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334044</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[I've been having the same issue, to fix it last night i had to reinstall one of the tf2 files (a 4gig file takes about 20 minutes for me) as i couldn't tell if the defrag was doing anything.

Same thing is happening today :/]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:58:48 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by huhas</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334029</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[You have to wait for like more than 10 minutes and it should be fine ;)]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:18:53 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Created by doksisthebest</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18332/page-1/?recent=334168#post=334025</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[So this has happened to me already twice. Friday was the first time and now again -_-
When i tried to launch TF2 it just poped out a window saying "Validating steam files" .. it run up to 100% and NOTHING happens... so try to run TF2 again.. again same window - again - NOTHING HAPPENS. Steam restart didnt help at all. Neither did pc restart.. so i decided to reinstal the game. So Saturday morning check on TF2.. and everything was fine. it was running again. Untill this evening. Restarted pc and couldnt get TF2 to start. Same story with that steam validating files shit. Steam restarted 3 times - same story. PC restart 3 times... on the 3rd time it said TF2 is so fragmented it needs a defrag... sooo no im running the defrag - hoping it will run TF2 after it once again. BUT.. i have seen on some forums people how this same problem and no one has come up with a solution so far.
So here is what is bugging me the most - the season is about to start and what if this happens just before an official match ? 

Hope someone has found a fix for this.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:16:30 +0200</pubDate>
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