merge torrent files

**billyvnilly** · June 9th, 2005, 02:41 PM

Hello i am new to this forum,
I have partially downloaded a torrent file twice. one is about 50% the other is about 30%. I am curious if its possible to merge the two on my computer so i can get one that is hopefully more than 50% done. I do have a network and another computer but i dont know what exaclty i am doing. if its possible to merge the two over a network, which app would be best suited to transfer.

thanks, billy.

**cpugeniusmv** · June 9th, 2005, 02:53 PM

Which Bittorrent client do you use?

**billyvnilly** · June 9th, 2005, 08:07 PM

i use azureus. But i also have bitcomet installed...

**shawners** · June 9th, 2005, 08:30 PM

are the files rar? If its an image, no. Well. ISO Buster or something might be useful.

**billyvnilly** · June 9th, 2005, 08:43 PM

no its not a rar, its ~15 VOB IFO and BUP sets

**cpugeniusmv** · June 10th, 2005, 04:23 AM

If what you are wanting to do is take both incomplete sets, and continue them on one computer--that can be done.

In Azureus, you can go into the torrent details and see which files are completed. Compare this list on both torrents, and then close the torrent clients. You can then copy the completed files from one that have not been completed on the other from one temporary directory to the other.

After that, restart your client on the second computer and you should have at least a little bit more completed than you did before :-)

**crestfallen** · June 10th, 2005, 01:06 PM

Just an FYI, after you move the completed files around, you may have to execute a "force re-check" of the hash, so the client knows what files to DL.

**billyvnilly** · June 10th, 2005, 11:08 PM

thanks, that did bump me up!

I guess a tangent to teh question i was asking is, do torrents transfer over a home network them same way i can transfer from someone at a different IP address?

thanks, billy.

**cpugeniusmv** · June 11th, 2005, 05:38 AM

Originally Posted by billyvnilly

thanks, that did bump me up!

I guess a tangent to teh question i was asking is, do torrents transfer over a home network them same way i can transfer from someone at a different IP address?

thanks, billy.

It becomes very complicated.

The short answer is a quiet "no".

In Azureus there is an option to "ignore LAN IPs" (I think), and it is enabled by default. But even if you disabled this option, I'm not sure if the tracker would accept/broadcast your LAN IP.