unzip bittorrent d/l

[McWalt]

something very sad happend today. I downloaded ********** within one night. Then Shareaza wanted to unzip the 1.28 GB file but I didn't have enough space left. It just unpacked the cue files, not the bins.

Does anyone know how to do that now? Is it smart to just add the .torrent file again with enough disk space? Will it start unpacking then or begin the d/l from the beginning?

[Mel_Smiley]

I think if you run winrar on both parts youll be ok. Im just guessing you have the same file others do. You need to winrar it and it'll be ok. now delete the this thread! lol

[Krell]

McWalt I edited the name completely out of your post, and I was waiting for you to post this, as I know your new ( but not as new as last week : )

So it looks like you are def making some progress, it's just with an app that we are not going to continue to support here in the forums.

Seeing as your question is still relevent in a windows technical way, I am leaving the thread open.

One thing that you need to stay aware of is how much free space you have on your hard drive(s). Never fill one all the way up, if you do, then you cant even defrag it, which is a weekly thing.


Do you just have one hard drive on your PC? How much space do you have left on it (them)? In Explorer, or under My Computer, right click the drives and chose properties, write down the free space., not the entire volume capacity.

[McWalt]

Originally posted by Krell
McWalt I edited the name completely out of your post, and I was waiting for you to post this, as I know your new ( but not as new as last week : )
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Do you just have one hard drive on your PC? How much space do you have left on it (them)? In Explorer, or under My Computer, right click the drives and chose properties, write down the free space., not the entire volume capacity.

hey man, I am not that new, I visit this page since Kazaa came up in the beginning of 2001. But the today's programs require expert's help! :-)

Ok, I have 96 GB on 6 partitions, less than 500 Megs on each partition left. I do not defragmentate - takes too much time even with Diskkeeper.
But back to the topic: WinRar does not open it, its not a WinRar File. I deleted some stuff on my d/l partition, so now there are 2,5 GB free. How do I make Shareaza finish the unpacking process? I want the bins!
BTW: Why don't you support BitTorrent? There are threads all over the forum....
Pls help.

[Mel_Smiley]

Its hard to tell what you mean really. have you tried burning the files since you already have the cue files. Nero should burn it

[matt merch]

if u have d/l a large rar/tar/zip i assume u have unrarred and ended up with a folder containg a load of 14.4mb rars just extract(unrar )any of these files and you will get your bins and cues

[matt merch]

u can then use fireburner /cdrwin to burn using the cue files or nero just to burn the bins without using the cues

[McWalt]

Originally posted by McWalt
Then Shareaza wanted to unzip the 1.28 GB file but I didn't have enough space left. It just unpacked the cue files, not the bins.

ONE file!!! Got it?????? 1.28 Gigs, no rar, no ace, no zip....
But just forget abou it. I renamed it to .iso, loaded it with alcohol and I am just playing it with powerDVD. But it seems, that it is only playing one of the 2 parts that are inside the ONE file (virtual DVD-drive displays 600 Megs), which is not rar.....

[Krell]

You are one frieghtening individual, and coming from me, that says something. j/k

How on gods green earth can you amass 90 Gb of data and never bother to defrag? When you dl files with P2P, you have 100% fragmentation, and that affects all of your system performance, for burning, playing movies, all of it.

Anyhoo, you seem to have your situation under control, at least better than we can make it out.

As far as BT goes, the mass discussion of a particular file, and the torrent sites have led us to believe that it draws too much negative attention to our site. The last thing we need is to show up on search engines as a one stop Get You Movies Here ! site.

Good luck with your projects.

[McWalt]

Originally posted by Krell
You are one frieghtening individual, and coming from me, that says something. j/k
well, thank you, how nice of you... ;-)

How on gods green earth can you amass 90 Gb of data and never bother to defrag? When you dl files with P2P, you have 100% fragmentation, and that affects all of your system performance, for burning, playing movies, all of it.
I didn't know that, perhaps that is why my system suffers from low performance; I thought it would be eMule or WinXP.

Anyhoo, you seem to have your situation under control, at least better than we can make it out.
Probably, I just thought, that someone would have an advice, because I am probably not the only one who d/l that file.

But thanx for all, you may close this thread now, or whatever you like...

[Krell]

No its cool, but I am still afraid for you, but at least you have some HD utilities that are decent.

Consider moving a little from each drive to another to free up space, and when you get 15% free space on a drive, defrag it while you go to bed.

Next day, move some file around, do it on another drive.

Also, when you guys have a few movies completed, they are 100% fragmented, but when you move them to another physical drive or partition space, they are laid out in a contingeous order, unless you move it to a fragmented space where there isnt room for the whole movie together.

So just by moving from the "download" folder on the D: drive, over to the "Movies" folder on the E: drive, the file gets defragged.

With that newly vacant space is a good opportunity to defrag the rest of the way.

100% fragmentation seriously affect performance, and causes extra wear and heat for your drive. It wll be much quieter when defragged too.

[McWalt]

Originally posted by Krell
Consider moving a little from each drive to another to free up space, and when you get 15% free space on a drive, defrag it while you go to bed.
...
Also, when you guys have a few movies completed, they are 100% fragmented, but when you move them to another physical drive or partition space, they are laid out in a contingeous order, unless you move it to a fragmented space where there isnt room for the whole movie together.
...
100% fragmentation seriously affect performance, and causes extra wear and heat for your drive. It wll be much quieter when defragged too.

ok, I will go to the ALDI market and buy some CDs, burn everything, arrange the files in old order (order has completely gone in the last weeks because of space problems) and defrag all drives. Perhabs I can play Doom3 again (even Quake2 doesn't run fast with my Radeon9700pro).

Thanx Krell, I never noticed that defrag is that important, just do that once a year or something :-).
But i'm still rolling over the floor about that "smoke out of the PC" thing - too funny (I mean in a symphatic way) ... :-)))

[Krell]

hehe sure np, there may be some other spects we need to look at for Doom and Quake too, like your version of DX, the motherboard chipset drivers, the AGP Aperture size, whether or not you have DMA enabled . . . . so another day we can address just those things in a new thread.


OK everybody, get rest, or go to work, or lunch, where ever you are, I'm outta here for a while.

cheers