Pinchiukas Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 I download stuff from a few trackers, and when I have a file downloaded, i get a torrent file from the other trackers that have the file and tell utorrent to download to the directory that the file already is downloaded to. So I could seed the files to all trackers that have them. When downloading, most of the time I don't download all the files in a torrent. So I have a directory with the downloaded files and a dat file. And this is where the problem comes in. When I tell that the other torrent should be downloaded to the same dir, it won't see the beginning of the first file ant the end of the last file (they aren't the first and the last files in the torrents, they are the first ant the last files I downloaded). I don't add trackers to a single torrent because even though the main content is the same from all the trackers, often there are diffrent files in them (a torrent in one tracker can have more files than the other torrent in the other tracker). So maybe you can tell me a way to avoid this problem, or this could be considered as a kind of bug in utorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinchiukas Posted September 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2006 anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 1, 2006 Report Share Posted September 1, 2006 Nothing much you can do about this, as the missing pieces are probably part of another file you selected to skip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinchiukas Posted September 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 I think the devs could change something so that complete files wouldn't get chopped. It should leave existing files untouched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrero Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 well, double-click the torrent and manually add the tracker urls (seperate with an empty line). this works only, when the torrent files from different trackers have the identical hash valueedit: sorry, i didnt read op correctly. my bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 @Pinchiukas: There's nothing that can be done about it -- pieces are the smallest appreciable unit of data in BitTorrent, and if you do not have a complete piece, it's tossed, as it fails to match the hash described in the .torrent file, and there is NO way to include hash data for every possible segment of a piece, otherwise you'll end up with a huge .torrent file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinchiukas Posted September 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Anything you might suggest? Maybe applying read-only privileges to the folder with the files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 I guess so, but I'm not sure how the hash checking would react, and even if it did pass the hash check, you won't be able to upload the pieces in the torrent that are incomplete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinchiukas Posted September 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 That's a very insignificant part of a torrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinchiukas Posted September 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 I have an idea: utorrent shouldn't cut the files so that they wouldn't get messed up . I won't be able to seed the very start of a file, but I don't care, utorrent shouldn't damage files :/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 How do you propose for µTorrent to be able to find out whether incomplete pieces are corrupt or not? If µTorrent doesn't junk the incomplete pieces and keeps them instead, you'll get the rest of the userbase barking up the tree saying that µTorrent corrupts data because it kept the incomplete and/or hashfailed pieces from a previous session and didn't discard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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