bobbygee Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 I started a torrent dowload from a private tracker and got stuck at 99.9%. After a few days, I searched and found the same file through another private tracker and completed the download to 100%. How do I inform the 1st tracker that the file is completed so that I can start seeding it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 If the files are truly identical, you can set the download location and force a re-check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbygee Posted September 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 I sort of did that and it didn't work. I renamed the file, so that uTorrent flagged an error. Then I forced a recheck, which passed, and then started it, but it still showed 99.9%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Files need to be identical (filename too). If you renamed it, it's normal that uT printed an error msg.Are you sure one of your torrents doesn't contain more files than the another one ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbygee Posted September 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 When I opened the torrent from the new tracker, the first thing it did was check the existing file from the 1st tracker, then it downloaded the 2 missing files and completed. There is only 1 dowload location, and forcing a recheck causes the 1st tracker to stop at 99.9%, but the 2nd tracker goes all the way to !00%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Then the two torrents aren't identical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbygee Posted September 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Let me restate. The file is an iso, which is downloaded as a directory containing a number of archived files. The 1st torrent has 1058 of 1059 pieces of 4MB size, which it reports as 99.9%. The 2nd tracker has all 4234 pieces of 1MB size. When I opened the 2nd torrent, the tracker did NOT dowload all 4234 pieces, since it checked the 4MB pieces, and downloaded only the missing pieces from the 1st torrent. I renamed the download directory, because uTorrent's "force recheck" option was greyed out, and by renaming it it flagged the torrent as an error, which then enabled the recheck option. I named the directory back to its original name and forced a recheck on both trackers. The 1st torrent stopped at 99.9%, but the 2nd torrent completed to 100%. The torrents are not identical, since the piece sizes are different, but they are the same iso file. The 2nd tracker had no problem with the piece size, since it completed the iso file quite quickly (since it did not download what was already there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 So if a forced re-check failed with the 1st torrent (pieces of 4MB size), maybe it is nuked.It could be the case with archived files (rar, zip etc) if the original uploader create this torrent with partial data (example: data coming from a previous torrent finished to 98 or 99%).Yep, torrents have different hashes so that's why you have 2 torrents in uT window for the same files (your iso). Even if piece size is different, the forced re-check for the 2nd one when the 1st one is at 100% shouldn't fail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbygee Posted September 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 The file is NOT nuked. It is OK since the 2nd tracker completed all the pieces, and I burned it to a DVD. It stopped at 99.9% because that was all the 1st tracker recorded as being downloaded. It is still in the download stage on that tracker, and I cannot seed it back unless it is 100%.Anyway, thanks for your comments, but I will contact the tracker and see if this can be resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 NOT the file but the .torrent.Maybe on the 1st tracker, the uploader uploaded a torrent with files finished at 99%.As you can download from another location, the 2nd tracker has finished the job ; anyway the 1st torrent stays stuck at 99%.Your file is good but one of both torrents is nuked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 It has nothing to do with the tracker. The files referenced by each torrent are not identical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbygee Posted September 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 If the files are not identical, then why did the 2nd tracker not download the complete 4.43GB data? It checked the existing data from the 1st tracker, and only dowloaded about 4 MB to complete the iso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Probably because the first tracker's torrent was made with corrupted data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 If the files are not identical, then why did the 2nd tracker not download the complete 4.43GB data? It checked the existing data from the 1st tracker, and only dowloaded about 4 MB to complete the iso.The first torrent was made and uploaded with corrupted data, eg full iso of 4.43GB less a missing part of 5 or 10MB.The 2nd torrent was made and uploaded with safe data, eg only full iso of 4.43GB.Even if the 2nd tracker allows you to dwl the full iso, the 1st tracker refers ONLY corrupted data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbygee Posted September 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 FYI. The situation is resolved. I requested a re-seed from the 1st tracker, and the file now completed to 100% so I can seed it back. That means that the torrent was not corrupt. I guess each tracker keeps track of how much was downloaded, even if there is extra data. I guess it also means there is no way to tell 1 tracker that you got missing data from another tracker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 21, 2008 Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 ... They're not the same data Glad that someone still had the data at the other tracker.This is one of the many reasons that using bittorrent on compressed archives is BAD. The same data with the same settings compresses differently with different amounts of RAM and on different computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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