waxer Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 The administrator closed my last topic because he thought that utorrent already does this, but it doesn't. When there is data already in a folder called "temp", and torrent is then opened, if you select "temp" as the destination directory, all the data will be overwritten. Instead, it should be able to check the pieces that are already there and then start downloading only the pieces that are needed.utorrent does not do this, so don't tell me it does. I have experienced it for myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 I'm not going to refute you, as I can't be sure if it's actually happening or not, but I'll pose these questions for you: If it doesn't already do this, then how does µTorrent resume downloads at all? Wouldn't it just keep overwriting files any time it starts a torrent?The only way µTorrent can resume is if it checks the files you point to first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waxer Posted February 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 So when opening a new torrent, if you have your options set to Start Automatically, it won't recheck the files and it will therefore overwrite the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 yes, and that's precisely why all my torrents resume.if it's starting from 0% in your case, it means you pointed it to the wrong folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waxer Posted February 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 OK. So you are saying if you start a new torrent, and it is started automatically, and it is pointed to the right directory, it will first check to see if there are existing files in that directory, and if so, it will resume downloading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Yes, it will check them, but any of the files (or subfolders inside that folder) that don't match in name get ignored. if the data doesn't match at all, but has the same name, it gets overwritten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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