I ran into a problem with portsnap on my FreeBSD box and just figured out how to fix it. There was little information on the problem online so I will share it in case anyone else encounters this problem:
/usr/ports/files/<hash>.gz not found — snapshot corrupt.
To fix it I did this as root:
rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/*
portsnap fetch
portsnap extract update
This removes the corrupt snapshot database and forces it to fetch an entirely new one, then continue the update as usual.
thx!