textured Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 hi. i am having issues with larger torrents in which i only want to d/l a selection of the files. the problem is that the torrent will reach 100% but still only have the .dat file in the folder.. which is useless to me. why does this happen and is there a way to get the files out without d/ling the rest of the torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hazel Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 hi. i am having issues with larger torrents in which i only want to d/l a selection of the files. the problem is that the torrent will reach 100% but still only have the .dat file in the folder.. which is useless to me. why does this happen and is there a way to get the files out without d/ling the rest of the torrent?The partfile contains the fragments of pieces that overlapped files you did not want to download. The other files should be usable for you. Are they not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 alus, it seems like -all- the data is being written to the .dat file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
textured Posted March 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 this is the problem! even after the torrent has reached 100% on every one of the files that i have selected to d/l, the torrent folder still only contains the part file (.dat). this is the *only* file there! sometimes it does indeed compile the completed files and display them, but other times it does not. this is currently happening to me on a 9.56 gb torrent (i only want four 175mb files from it) and also a torrent with three 100mb files, in which i only ant one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Provide a step-by-step process you use. Verify you can reproduce the problem. Post your LOGFILES requested from http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=309279#p309279That's odd how there's a sudden upswing of reports. Are you guys sure these 5 people aren't the same guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hazel Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Is bt.compact_allocation enabled? You can check in Options > Preferences > Advanced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
textured Posted March 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 bt.compact_allocation = *true..should i change this?and dude... i havent been to this forum in months, let alone have multiple accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 @jewelisheaven: Happens all the time. I've also previously noted that feature requests, bug reports, and troubleshooting problems have often come (oddly) in waves (you'll find 2 examples by searching for my posts containing wave* ). No, they're not the same users Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hazel Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 bt.compact_allocation = *true..should i change this?Yes. Unfortunately, skipping files with bt.compact_allocation enabled does not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
textured Posted March 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 so is there any way to have an effect on the torrents that i already started? or will it only work from now on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hazel Posted March 3, 2008 Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 so is there any way to have an effect on the torrents that i already started? or will it only work from now on?Once a torrent has downloaded just 1 piece with compact allocation, there's no going back. You can unskip all files, and the torrent should reach 100% properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
textured Posted March 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 ahh well, at least now i got it resolved. thx for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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