firemobi wrote:[...] I see that a rapidgator (rg.to) link has been added to both posts. While it's quite slow for free downloads, at least you won't face as annoying ads as on some of the other filehosts.
As of minutes ago (more than 48 hours since my original PD download attempt failed) the PD cache continues to serve truncated versions of both downloads, even when using the new-in-the-last-24-hours Rapidgator links (thank you to the file-poster(s) for adding these!). Which confirms your deduction that a single bad filehost (e.g. skyve.io) can poison (and potentially, depending on which PD links end users click on, re-poison) the PD cache (either that or users clicking on any PD link for the file (and downloading the truncated (defective) version of the file from the PD cache) defers clearing of that file from the PD cache?).
Fortunately I have full-speed download capability for Rapidgator, so my problem re these two audiobooks is solved...