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March 13th, 2006, 07:50 PM
Hi a friend is helping me to download a multi-GB file from the BT network. He is using utorrent to download selective files from the torrent. Each file is approximately 250mb and there's quite a few of them.
He is downloading about 8 at a time which is roughly 2gigabytes. I then download these files from him using Waste.
I decided I'd download the last few episodes (files) from the torrent he was working with a different BT client (BitComet 0.62).
With BitComet open I downloaded the last eight episodes of the tv show from the multi part torrent....my friend downloaded the first eight.
Now with the torrent open and running in BitComet moved 4 of the episodes my friend had downloaded for me with utorrent that were complete or finished to the location on my hdd where I was downloading the files at the end of that torrent....then after the files were completely copied to the folder where I was currently downloading from BitComet, I selected to "download" those files I had gotten from my friend thinking that BitComet would recognised them as already being there....it didn't. Instead it resumed downloading them in the client as was evidenced by the status info under files in the bitcomet client. It showed them at 0percent and gradually filling.
My Question is would this have worked if I had removed the torrent from the client and restarted it?
Basically this post is to serve as warning to others who may have the same idea so that u don't lose any hardearned files this way.
Theoretically it shouldn't be a problem....I'm uncertain why Bitcomet didn't recognise them as finished or complete unless its because the torrent was already started and it didn't rescan or check the folder for already existing data....or possibly Waste with its encryption changed the crc of the file or even transfer by p2p (moving it) did it or may have done it.
Often times files change slightly when being moved from one place to another or downloaded via ftp....p2p...slight change maybe on 1or2bytes 3or4max can change the crc value of the file.
What's the best way to resume this file if possible so that I can continue to SEED it without it redownloading the files that were obtained from a different source other downloaded via BT client from the tracker..is this even possible?
He is downloading about 8 at a time which is roughly 2gigabytes. I then download these files from him using Waste.
I decided I'd download the last few episodes (files) from the torrent he was working with a different BT client (BitComet 0.62).
With BitComet open I downloaded the last eight episodes of the tv show from the multi part torrent....my friend downloaded the first eight.
Now with the torrent open and running in BitComet moved 4 of the episodes my friend had downloaded for me with utorrent that were complete or finished to the location on my hdd where I was downloading the files at the end of that torrent....then after the files were completely copied to the folder where I was currently downloading from BitComet, I selected to "download" those files I had gotten from my friend thinking that BitComet would recognised them as already being there....it didn't. Instead it resumed downloading them in the client as was evidenced by the status info under files in the bitcomet client. It showed them at 0percent and gradually filling.
My Question is would this have worked if I had removed the torrent from the client and restarted it?
Basically this post is to serve as warning to others who may have the same idea so that u don't lose any hardearned files this way.
Theoretically it shouldn't be a problem....I'm uncertain why Bitcomet didn't recognise them as finished or complete unless its because the torrent was already started and it didn't rescan or check the folder for already existing data....or possibly Waste with its encryption changed the crc of the file or even transfer by p2p (moving it) did it or may have done it.
Often times files change slightly when being moved from one place to another or downloaded via ftp....p2p...slight change maybe on 1or2bytes 3or4max can change the crc value of the file.
What's the best way to resume this file if possible so that I can continue to SEED it without it redownloading the files that were obtained from a different source other downloaded via BT client from the tracker..is this even possible?