I spent the last 24 hours trouble shooting several problems and errors I have been experiencing when using scrapebox. I wanted to share my story.
Background---
- I have been using scrapebox for the last 2 weeks, about 3-5 hours a day, everyday. Im promoting over 200 URL's, many many keywords, and several different niches.
- Im not a programmer, but I think I have more than the average amount of tech skills
- I initially installed scrapebox on : XP Pro - 2.8GHz Processor - 1 GB RAM
Errors I was experiencing--
- Some of the features of scrapebox worked good like fast posting but many of the features were either too slow or didnt work at all.
- intermittent success/failures harvesting proxies. Sometimes harvesting would work OK, sometimes not at all.
- At times speed harvesting URL's was unbelievably slow. Some harvests of 10,000 URL's would take 1.5 to 2 hours to complete.
- Very little success at all with manual posting mode, slow poster, and slow poster accurate modes. I would get maybe 2 posts out of hundreds of attempts in slow poster accurate mode. Very frustrating.
- At times fast posting would be fine... then in the middle of a fast poster session, the URL's would just scroll Fail, Fail, Fail, Fail, Fail.. for half of the list. This pissed me off.
- Speed checking PR was very slow. It could take me 1 hour to check the PR on 5,000 URL's.
- Some "Freezing" of the program occurred on occasion.
My Trouble Shooting Process--
- The first thing I did was
read through this entire thread, again, to see if I could get some advice that already existed. I tried a few things suggested but nothing fixed my issues.
- I started trouble shooting my scrapebox settings and testing different scrapebox specific settings. None of the setting changes really helped my issues.
- I checked, updated, and simplified my home network to try to rule out any router/internet connection/ or connectivity issues. No luck here either.
- I checked the computer I was using to run scrapebox. Checked settings, OS updates, processes running, performance settings, memory settings. The processor and memory usage was minimal when using scrapebox. Everything looked fine.
- My next step was to move scrapebox to a new PC. This is where I found the solution to my problems.
What solved my problems--
- Installing scrapebox in a different PC solved my problems. I re-formatted a PC I had laying around so it was a fresh OS install with no other applications installed. XP Pro - 2.0GHz Processor - 1 GB RAM
- When I installed scrapebox on the new PC it was like night and day. I was pulling down 5 times as many proxies in the proxy harvester. Manual posting, slow posting and slow posting accurate now work, Everything was lightening fast.
Im super psyched!!!
- I have NO idea why my other PC didnt like scrapebox, maybe scrapebox didnt like my other PC

. Could have been conflicting with another piece of software, could have been a network card issue/conflict, could have been anything.
The Moral of the story
If your running into some problems that are out of the ordinary, you should thoroughly troubleshoot the problems. Read through this thread, do some testing, and maybe even try putting scrapebox on a different PC. Dont just think its a problem with scrapebox!!!!! It could be your PC, it could be your internet connection, it could be your network set up, and of course it could be your own stupidity
I hope this was helpful. Good luck all.
PS- If you need to move scrapebox to a new PC - Download it from your initial install email link - click activate - fill in info and check transfer box - wait for approval for the transfer. The license does not allow you to have it running on more than one PC. If you want to do that, just purchase another copy.