manys Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 After a torrent is finished and I move it to a different directory, the files lose pieces. The meter in uT shows missing pieces from the beginning and end of each file every time I do this. Aside from "don't do that," what is happening here, and can it be avoided? Is uT paying attention to directories and thus changing the hash with each copy or change in the name of the parent path? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 Why are you skipping files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manys Posted May 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 where do i say i'm skipping files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 That's one of the two reasons pieces get "lost". If every file has its edge piece affected.. let me make the other case. You are playing with media files. And you use a media library manager like WMP or iTunes. They alter your data. Your data is no longer what you downloaded hence the "missing" pieces.Edit: I meant to reply to your latter question last time, but I got distracted. uT doesn't modify the torrent. It loads it, all changes made such as trackers and rename operations are stored in the resume.dat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manys Posted May 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 i'm not skipping files, though. just moving them somewhere else.also, this is not via any media manager aside from Windows Explorer, moving from one directory to another and running a re-check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 The files are not media? In the Files tab, right click the column header turn on First Piece. Sort by First Piece. If every file in order is showing RED (unavailable) that means that the data was corrupted. If it happens on all files and they're not media, run a chkdsk immediately to keep from losing data. Additionally you may want to run memtest86 > 12 hours to see what shows up.The reason for the % decrease is whenever you change paths, uT re-verifies data integrity. It's not the moving which caused the "loss" of data, but it made you aware of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manys Posted May 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 the last part makes some sense. is it a part of the torrent spec that a path change will invalidate files/pieces within a torrent, or is it a uTorrent thing? If it's a uT thing, why can't it figure out that the paths are the only thing that changed? Currently I have to actually re-download the torrent in order to straighten everything back up, which seems excessive and redundant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 What version of µTorrent are you using? It doesn't do this when I relocate files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 You have yet to answer my question. Until you do the same answer applies, EVEN if you THINK you have all the data, it doesn't match the hash so you redownload. Plain and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manys Posted June 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 Solved. The problem is not due to merely moving the files, it's from changing ID3 tags. If only the protocol could handle this, because a lot of people have lax attitudes toward ID3's and I'd rather not have multiple copies laying around for things I'm seeding. Boo hoo for me, I guess!So yes, when a file doesn't match the hash it gets redownloaded, but that wasn't my question.(v1.8.2, btw) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 ID3 tags are contained within the file, and changing them changes the file. There's nothing you can do about that except not changing the tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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