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I notice there is a popular server that everytime I try and join attempts to download this file. Unfortunately it seems to be so slow that it will take 2+ hours to get like a 15 MB file.

I'm a noob so I don't know how to find out where I get these files so can anyone point me in the direction of a faster source.

I also get an "invalid game folder" error for another relatively popular server how do I fix that?

tell the server admin to update to 0.7 and keep fan out of rotation.

Yeah, you are probably trying to connect to a server with a 0.7 version, while that server hosts @ 0.6 version. Its why it tries to download that pak6. My advice is dont download that file, there are a number of 0.7 servers already with people, and later on I think every server will switch to the newer version.

I have the same problem while trying to connect for example K-Play. I have the newest version (svn) and the old one but it doesn't work either. I try to figure out when i get 'invalid game folder', 'pak6-misc.pk3' and when problem with ui.qvm file. Actually i was able to connect once with oa0.6 to server that has oa0.6 in the name. I'm using Debian.

Haueck

Ask the K-play admin/s to update their servers to 0.7 and you shouldn't have this problem.

Also you should only be using the svn if you wish to help test/develop 0.8 (though it is very early in the dev cycle, and we're all being lazy) as you will not be able to join any pure server while playing it.  :)

If this is the case then using version 0.6 should solve it right but it doesn't seem to.

Clear the user's application directory of any extraneous paks.  On *nix systems this is in ~/.openarena on windows it is in the Documents and Settings\x\Application Data\OpenArena\baseoa\ folder. 

Thanks mate but How do I know which paks are extraneous?
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What am I missing here, it tries to download this file everytime I try and connect to these servers so why isn't it as simple as just downloading the file?

pak6-misc.pk3.tmp is extraneous and can be safely deleted ;)  then just be careful which servers you join.

Does this help me join these servers that's what I really want, they're the most populated when I go log on and and have pretty low lag for me so obviosuly I'd like to join and while I'm grateful for your help it doesn't seem like a solution.

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Is there no way I can join these servers, why is that?
This seems kinda nuts I thought all I needed was Pak6-misc.pk3, perhaps a few other files that people would point me to a good location to get them and maybe a simple solution for the invalid game folder error.