uTorrent thinks its finished after a crash. Recheck thinks so too...

[smacksim]

Is there any other way for me to have uTorrent recheck a torrent than 'force recheck'? Because that seems to think I've completed a download that is definitely not complete.

Here's what happened more specifically:

uTorrent 1.6 running great for 3 straight days, but then I get overly ambitious and run too many programs at once, resulting in a meltdown.

"No Problem" I think.

I restart, and restart uTorrent. It automatically does a recheck, and to my horror declares that the 6gb file is finished.

"Wow, that's cool that uTorrent downloaded 4GB's for me while the computer was rebooting!"

I do a search here and find that 'Force Recheck' is the magical cure for all ailments of this type, but alas, recheck tells me what it did the first time: "100% done! I'm going to start seeding this as complete!"

"Er, No"

So, is there another way to force a recheck of all downloaded parts? Or am I stuck having to redo 3 days of downloading because of a reboot? I would have thought that torrents would be mildly impervious to this kind of thing. Am I wrong?

Thanks for any help you might offer,

Smack

[Ultima]

Remove the torrent form the list and readd it, then point it to the correct location. Does it still do this? Have you checked if another BitTorrent client reports the same as µTorrent?

[smacksim]

Thanks Ultima, those are good sounding ideas which I'll try next time. I restarted the whole thing and am back where I was when I posted the above (30% of 6gb).

Can you tell me in what circumstances uTorrent loses its 'parts' list and/or the parts themselves? I've read that if you re=check the file the current parts are discarded if incomplete.

Thanks again,

Smack

[Ultima]

It can lose pieces if a file was changed (thumbs.db modified, text file modified, etc), or if it gets corrupt from an improper shutdown (crash, forced quit, etc), or busted hardware.