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[SAS~Storebror]

Dear SAS Members and Guests,

Some of you might have noticed that download links of mods being a few years old and pointing to Mediafire often times appear to be "dead".
The reason behind this is that Mediafire decided to change the format of the download link URLs a while ago.

For instance, this was an active download link of a mod from 2014: https://www.mediafire.com/download/?nbzh4zoc8ohfrwz
The link will take you to a page telling you that "something appears to be missing".
Don't worry, you can help yourself out of this.

Just take the "old" link and remove a little bit of it to make it a valid "new" link again.

In the example shown above, you can either remove the "?" from the link, or you can remove "download/" drom the URL, both will give you a valid, working link to the file:
https://www.mediafire.com/download/nbzh4zoc8ohfrwz
https://www.mediafire.com/?nbzh4zoc8ohfrwz

Newer style mediafire links use "file" instead of "download" and can contain a filename, so e.g. the valid link for...
https://www.mediafire.com/nbzh4zoc8ohfrwz/DiffFM_for_HSFX_7.zip
...would be this:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/nbzh4zoc8ohfrwz/DiffFM_for_HSFX_7.zip/file

The same trick works with any such "old" mediafire link(s) unless the modder really pulled the file in the meantime (which just happens to be the case once in a million links).

Yours sincerely,
The SAS Administration

[Cafs]

Thanks a lot for the tip.

Kudos.      

[Fresco23]

Interesting! I move this tip get "Pinned" for future use.

Cheers
Fresco

[Shessi]

Ha ha a lightbulb moment!

Thanks for taking the time to explian this gem of a tip SB.

Cheers

Shessi