It seems there's an issue with dumldore and the laptop, unable to maintain the either long enough or properly to allow the upload to complete. Not blaming dumldore, but there is an issue where during the upload process it must be getting interrupted, where as assistant seems to keep the ftp locked in and doesn't allow for outside interruptions. How best to diagnose this, not quite sure at the moment. When you say reinstall Windows, are you talking about a refresh as in "repair" or completely destroy all content on the HDD and start fresh? That wouldn't be possible in this case as it's my tuning laptop and ya we'll just leave it at that. Hahaha. Wayyyyy too much blood and sweat into everything invested on this thing to start over. If I can avoid that ofc. I'd rather source the issue as it may help others as well. As for another PC, I've used a desktop, while it's an older build PC, it flashed no issue. I did exactly as you mentioned, find another with almost same equip, while that's not exactly possible atm, I tried my PC and it works, so I checked into the drivers version, framework version, rdnis version, all the same. I've tried dropping the antivirus and firewalls, still the same.
When my bro is back in town, I'll bum his laptop and give it a go, his is the same as mine, but he's been gone for a few months so had not access to his.
That being said, I've noticed watching the resource manager and linked dumldore while it's doing it's thing, once it begins to upload, at some point the transfer of information begins to slow and fall off, which then it no longer is responding and stalls. I'm trying to find a way to locate the interruption in order to eliminate it from the equation.
My goal is to figure this out in order to help anyone else who encounters a similar situation where the normal fix doesn't work for them. Thanks to everyone who helped with ideas and other methods to test and figure this out. This is what being a community is about. We do the same in our tuning community as well. One guy has a hiccup in his fuel mixture or bump or drop in his boost, we all go over the logs to and tuned file to figure out where the possible complication is and fix it.
I'll give the dos method a try. I'm not super familiar with that, however I have some minor experience with it. See how it goes and I'll report back. Need to go read up on how to properly run it.
Thank you everyone. Oh and Happy Sunday
Yikes thats a **** of a novel.