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Firon

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  1. Compact allocation stores everything in the first file, then moves it to the next file at some point, and so on. The only file that would be a jumble of data would be the last file created. The other ones would have empty sections in them, but would be in the correct order. Or at least I think that's how it works... I'm not 100% sure on this.

    I'm not sure how reliable it is, but I think there's other clients using this mode without problems, though I imagine moving the files to another client would give problems.

  2. So, compact allocation is still giving element not found?

    You can see how it works in realtime, it stores all data downloaded into the first file, until a point, and then creates a second file and moves the data that doesn't belong in the first to it, and so on... it's kinda weird. :D

  3. yuppy: just choose a different label, or create a new one

    sparse files does NOT allocate or reserve extra space. In fact, it writes data out of order. it's nothing more than a flag set in the MFT to save space. The "size" will still show the full size, but if you view the properties, it will show size on disk as a much MUCH smaller value. It's also for NTFS only.

    partfile creates a partfile in the same folder as the other data which stores bits of files you skipped but are still required. It gets removed if/when you remove the torrent data.

    compact allocation does not keep writes contiguous, it also stores data out of order, but not quite as efficiently as sparse files. It stores it in a python-like manner (very weird). it works on FAT32 though.

    In all cases, you would get small bits of other files if you turn off partfile.

    You should be using the BETA if you're using compact allocation because it's broken in 1.3, and try to NOT use it with the partfile.

  4. Press Ctrl C. You can copy the text in any standard dialog/message box by doing that. Little known fact. :P

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    µTorrent

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    Total Uploaded: 76.5 GB

    Total Downloaded: 31.3 GB

    Total Running Time: 5w 6d

    Number of files added: 216

    Program started: 13 times

    # incoming conns since start: 4669

    # outgoing conns since start: 695

    Size of disk queue: 1

    # connections: 1

    # half-open: 0

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    OK

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