mishkin Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 I have a torrent box at a provider that shall remain unnamed (but it's possible it's a issue with the host itself)I have irc scripts downloading .torrent files which are being auto loaded by utorrentOn large packs typically bigger than 10-15gb (which have lots of rars) and typically are 500K to 1MB in size are being downloaded as 0 bytes or in some cases 58 bytesutorrent deletes the torrents it loads so these 0byte torrents get left in the folderSmaller torrents including packs like 5gb of tv or a single show torrent download just fineI'm running debian etch with xfce4, and at some point I did an apt-get update apt-get upgraderecently I updated my curl and wget to the latest versionsanother odd thing is when I go to wget the 0 byte torrent from the torrent site it downloads just fine (at very high speed too) and isn't 0 byte (should also mention no one else is getting 0 bytes)I can't figure out why a larger size .torrent would be 0 bytes while smaller ones download just fineit's possible I suppose utorrent could be trying to load / delete it before the dl has completed?? I'm gonna try turning off the delete feature but it could even be the loading feature causing the file not to be writable???I'm using 3 different scripts with 2 different irc clients and all are doing the same thingThe packs are freeleech and large so it really really blows to be missing themany suggestions leading to the solving of this issue will get a 20 euro present from me (via paypal)thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryphonheart Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Hello.First i must know format of the partition where You trying save downloaded files... FAT32 can make problems with big files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishkin Posted December 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 no it is debian... so it should be ext3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Single files over 4GB in size aren't supported on FAT32 partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishkin Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 a it's not fat32 it's a linux debian etch serverb the packs are made up of lots of rars, files never excede 100mb in size (scene releases only)I think it might of started after and update but I can't recall for surethere must be some software in commen between the 2 scripts that is messing it up (one uses wget one uses curl so thats not it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 You said the .torrent files themselves were sometimes 0 bytes, right?Maybe the script is faulty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiticiX Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 I don't know about irc scripts, but look at the timing of things as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishkin Posted January 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 well it's more than one script written by different people in different programming languages that use different software to download the files also sometimes utorrent fails to load a perfectly good full size torrent fileedit:I think I fixed my 0byte torrent file problem myselfI did 2 things at once: moved my download folder and watch folder to a location /home/mishkin/.wine/drive_c/torrent/ utfiles/, downloads/, torrentfiles/So then in utorrent the paths are set like C:\torrent\torrentfiles\ , utfiles\, downloadsAnd seccondly I turned off delete loaded torrents in utorrentNot sure which fixed it, before I was using a /home/mishkin/downloads etc path and in utorrent listing them as Z:/home/mishkin/ etc, and sometimes ut would switch the forward slashes to black slashs perioidcallyso If I had to guess it was putting the dirs in the virtual c drive that did it- One guy suggested a mod for a script on only one stie which didn't seem to help, another guy suggest a 5 seccond sleep before downloading the torrent incase it's a server busy/timeout, but again that didn't seem to helpI've now undone both of the above suggestions and it seems to be working so yay mewas really starting to think I wouldn't solve it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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