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Does uTorrent re-check all hashes after a crash?


Azelza

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Hi,

I was downloading a couple hundred torrents, when it became very hot in the room and my computer bluescreened.

After re-starting uTorrent, it has gone through a process of "Checked 0%" .. "Checked 100%" on each Torrent.

Does this mean with 100% certainty that it will check every single piece downloaded so far's hash and find if anything was corrupted during the crash?

I want to know if I can be confident about the recovery, or if I should throw out the 100GB and start them all over again.

- A

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It's not a recovery, it's a check for corrupted data, and you can be confident in a passing torrent. I'm not sure but I think torrents that don't need checking since they weren't being downloaded at the time of the crash wont be checked.

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Dear Firon,

Regarding what you said about it checking all data:

I have one concern. When I restarted uTorrent, 80 torrents had to go through the checking 0 to 100% process... however...

The *moment* I started uTorrent, 20 torrents were Downloading immediately. And they were things already at 50%, 30%, 91%, etc.. And they did not go through the checking process at all. They're not tiny files or anything so it couldn't have happened so quickly I didn't see. I mean immediately after I open, there they go, no check.

What could have caused this such that uTorrent didn't check those ones?

- A

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1.8 has fast_resume which does a check from basically the "last good configuration" if you're familiar with the F8 windows bootup screen... When you close uTorrent correctly with in-progress data, it saves the data, and when you close uTorrent incorrectly it can run from that in-progress data... though it must be immediately after a good shutdown. The few times I've killed uTorrent.exe unexpectedly, the rechecking procedure didn't last NEARLY as long on 1.8 :D

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