rednorth Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 ok i had a look through the forum and couldn't find a topic about my problem.so, over the past month i've been dowloading a torrent. i was all happy yesterday because there was 4 hours to go and i though by morning it would be done.i come along and suddenly it's saying 30% of the files are still incomplete. that's like, going backwards from where i left it the night before, which was saying it was at around 85% complete.interestingly enough, it shows all the files that are incomplete as having their beginnings and ends missing, the line is all solid in the middle. it certainly wasn't like this before.so it's like somethings gone through and eaten all my files!wondering what to do.i'm running windows xp sp2, i have an adsl2+ connection... using upnp. what else do i need to say? it was downloading at about 45k/s from around 20 peers when i left it before going to sleep.should i just let it download the extra bits of the files all over again? or is there a way for utorrent to examine the files and update itself? i tried uninstalling utorrent and reinstalling, to no avail.or have my files truly been eaten?pardon my n008ness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 This can only happen if you deleted some files or something and forced a re-check. Or if something corrupted the files and you forced a re-check.So, all I can say is, force a re-check again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednorth Posted August 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 thanks for your advice. i didn't know about forcing a recheck. i did that, but it still thinks all the files are incomplete.that's really infuriating... i can only conclude that something has corrupted the files.i suspect that some sort of issue happened over night, as when i came back to check in the morning, utorrent was not appearing in the task tray, nor on the taskbar. so i thought it must have somehow closed itself. so i started it again from the start menu and yeah when i had a look all the files were corrupted.i also noticed that my internet gateway connection had failed, and nothing had been downloaded for the past roughly 7 hours.so something somewhere in there majorly stuffed up.on a side note i have a netcomm nb5plus4w adsl2+ capable router. i know there is a separate topic on which router is best for utorrent, but i know that i have a lot of trouble getting utorrent to map the upnp port when it starts up. it usually does it after 5-10 minutes. don't know why that happens and randomly selecting a new port has no effect. just thought that might be relevant here somehow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 If µTorrent exited unexpectedly, it's not hard to imagine that stuff got corrupted or left unwritten to disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednorth Posted August 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 yes but it's funny that stuff was removed from the files that had already been downloaded and presumably written to disk. we're talking about a loss of around 700mb here... anyway, i'll just have to wear it and download the last 1.5gb again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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