Bittorrent error: "Data Corrupt"

[il11]

I was d/ling an album yesterday(around 10 songs). I closed the download window by mistake. So i restarted the download and it turns out the previous download process was still running in the background(sometimes closing a window in XP doesn't end the process which goes on running in the background).

So i had 2 copies running, and i when i checked after sometime it was giving an error message saying "Data corrupted".

So i want to know, how do i fix this? Do i have to redownload from the start? Or will that be no good since i was uploading the corrupt data to other users and messed up everyones download.

I'm not familiar with BT, please help.

[F0wler]

I'm sure you'll get your answer, there are a lot of people here who are experts with BT

[Whistler]

If stoping and starting doesnt work i dont think theres much else to be done

[Bytronix]

You could always delete everything and start from scratch. (I personally love this idea.)

[il11]

You could always delete everything and start from scratch. (I personally love this idea.)

yeah but since i was uploading the corrupt data to others, i may have screwed everyone elses data too, and downloading it back for em isn't going to help, or does it work differently. I'm not too familiar with how BT works.

[Whistler]

it does work differently or else if anyone corrupted any file that file would cease to be and the world would implode! i mean filesharing would stop

[moneoa]

yeah but since i was uploading the corrupt data to others, i may have screwed everyone elses data too, and downloading it back for em isn't going to help, or does it work differently. I'm not too familiar with how BT works.

If a BT cient finds any data you send to be corrupt it will find a client to download the fixed data and disregard what you sent. The magic of file hashing and the BT protocol
is that its ver hard if not impossible to corrupt a download and screw others unless you are seeding a corrupt file (as in the very first person to seed it to others)

in short you didnt harm anyone and you could just start it again

[zaccie]

I'm also a newbie and I also got data corrupt.
How does it work?

Let's say I get data corrupt. Then the client stops downloading the file.
If I continue the download, will it look for correct data somewhere else or will I have to re-download the whole file?

[muskrat_love]

Just get the tracker again and it will use the data that you already got and continue from there. At least I think so...

[Malicious Intent]

If I continue the download, will it look for correct data somewhere else or will I have to re-download the whole file?

It will discard the corrupt data and download it again. If the same source keeps sending corrupt data, your BT client will eventually stop trading with that person.

Data most likely got corrupted in transit, rather than being corrupted before it was sent. As moneoa said, it is basically impossible to send corrupt data by accident and would be futile to do deliberately. That only leaves corruption in transit.

Dont worry about it. Let your client do its thing.