Convert in-progress shareaza downloads?

[cbosdell]

Is it possible to convert an in progress shareaza download to utorrent? I have a 4 gb torrent running in shareaza that is 67% done and i don't want to start over?

I've already tried the open the torrent and make the download folder the same as the shareaza download thing. It didnt work.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris

[alcaholjunkie]

Did you remember to force a recheck on the torrent? (You would need to stop the download in µtorrent first).

[cbosdell]

yes and it didnt do anything

Shareaza does its downloads this odd way:

the downloaded torrents are named

File.CH

and File.sd

then once the download is done it unpacks it all

[ScubaSteve]

im sure someone will look into it. i do agree shareazas way of downloading torrents does suck badly im afraid.

[cbosdell]

yea. if i had had bittorrent all along i could have actually been watching the files that are complete instead of having nothing to do but wait.

[bkman]

There are programs around that will split Shareaza's tempfile into separate files that you can continue in another program. Here is one, but I only have a magnet link for it (get rid of the http part when copying to your client).

[Ultima]

I'd expect that Shareaza saves files in its own format to preserve compatibility between its different networks.

[ColdArmor]

and that's +1 reason to not use Shareaza =]

I woul just let it finish since you only have like what? 1.5 gigs to go. Then just use µTorrent after that single torrent is done.

[cbosdell]

nvm got the file. thanks so much!

[Xilon]

It's not +1 reason to not use shareaza. If you started downloading a torrent in shareaza then there's no reason to finish it in a different one. Don't complain for something like that. It's actually a +1 reason to use shareaza because you can get the file from 3 other networks at the same time. They are working on splitting the files for multi-file torrents and such but Shareaza's implementation of BT is far from good.

I know no way of converting a shareaza download to a torrent file, especially for multi-file torrents. Shareaza's format of incomplete files is totally different than uTorrents way so I'm quite sure that there's no way of converting.

[Ultima]

Well, according to bkman, there are applications that do that O.o

[bratao]

Of cource you can convert any donwload from any client..

Just open the two , go to shareaza advanced file opition and add the localhost:yourutorrenntporn

With a minutes, and the two torrets are syncronized

[bkman]

Of cource you can convert any donwload from any client..

Just open the two , go to shareaza advanced file opition and add the localhost:yourutorrenntport

With a minutes, and the two torrets are syncronized

Ha, I never once thought of doing that. Clever.