DiZzyBonne Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 I just downloaded a small file, only 3 KB, but it took me a long time to download.http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=weird1ln4.jpgWhen my download was complete, it said 2.00 MB under the Downloaded tab. Is it because of the ~uTorrentPartFile_57B21F32.dat file uTorrent makes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 The entire piece must be downloaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiZzyBonne Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 What do you mean by piece? Sorry for the dumb question .[EDIT]I know what you mean by pieces now, but all I have is the 3 KB file and the .dat.[EDIT 2]Blah, nevermind, not like it matters anyway hehe.http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Torrent_Piece_Size - Helped me a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 BitTorrent has no real concept of "files," and everything is just a big blob of concatenated data split up into pieces. Because of this, In order to get any single file, you need to download any and all pieces the file is split up into entirely.Example: A torrent you're downloading has piece size of 1MB. If fileA.zip (a 300KB file) is at the edge boundary between pieces in pieces 3 and 4, you need all of pieces 3 and 4 in order to recreate fileA.zip. That means you will need to download 2MB to get that 300KB file. Similarly, if a 3KB file belongs to one single piece, then you will need to download the entire 1MB piece (or maybe 2MB in your case) in order for µTorrent to extract the 3KB file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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