Thorz Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 HiI have changed the directory structure that I had on my hard disk for my downloads. I have changed the names for better organizing the directories.I had µ 1.4 downloading 4 torrents of 700MB each from a public tracker. DHT is ON. They are single AVI files, nothing else inside the torrent.Of course after changing the directories and restarting µ my torrent list was empty. As I have done several times with Bitcomet or Azureus in the past when I like to resume a torrent or just re-open it for seeding I re-opened again the first already downloaded .torrent file (from the hard disk), this torrent was going to be only seeded as it was already completed. I pointed µ to the new folder where the files are located now and clicked OK. As expected µ started to check the file but with great sorprise I saw that the check validated only 95%, and started to download instead of seeding.I stoped µ and inmediatly made a binary comparisson between the checked file and an exact copy that I had previously made to another folder. Total Commander revealed that the files were now different. Basically µ has deleted some part of the file for redownloading it again.This situation is a little dissapointing. It was good that I had a copy of the AVI because this torrent was really slow and that 5% could have taken me hours to re-download.Why has this happened? What is the correct way to do this for that µ doesn't delete a part or damage the already completed file (in this case) or a file that has already been partially downloaded like let's say 80%?I have never have this problem with Azureus or Bitcomet.Thank you very much for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 utorrent doesnt delete anything when it is checking the files as it only makes a reading operation, can't you make a copy from ur backup and see if utorrent detects it as invalid agin? perhaps your files got corrupted somehow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorz Posted January 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 It's ok now. I have tested with other files and now it is working as it should. Maybe it was just a glitch with that only file, who knows.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolt Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 im running 1.4 and ive had a number of problems with torrents "having a file missing" upon attempted resumation of the program.like you say they begin downloading when they have been completed and seeding previous to stopping/restarting the program.what ive found is that by closing the program and waiting a bit it will ususally restart fine.im not sure why. furthermore i do not know what happens in that period of time that satisfies the program.its frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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