Incomplete transfers.

[Brightneon]

There is collection I tried download. Search said 116 seeders, but only see 9 and only got 83% downloaded. I can find some of the files individually in the collection. Do I copy the downloads over the top so they can upload to peers? Do I report torrent as incomplete? Or just complete the collection and delete the torrent from client and keep the data? Would be nice to merge file sources.

[moogly]

You can relocate each partial files to the folder where you found a complete copy. Gp to in Files tab and right click on the partial files.

[Switeck]

You do however have to stop the torrent and do Force Recheck to recognize the added pieces.

This can be an absolute pain due to the delays of checking a multi-GB torrent on a slow drive.

Another way is to start another torrent client with just the missing parts and connect it to the FIRST torrent client which has most of the torrent...but you still have to get some extras because of edge piece overlaps. I'd say doing this is harder than it sounds, but once you've done it a time or 2 it's only tedious rather than incredibly hard.

[Brightneon]

How do you get the second torrent client to connect to other torrent then with replacement file?

[Switeck]

in uTorrent, in the PEERS window/tab...right-click and Add Peer. Do note you MUST use the 2nd torrent client's LAN (or local!) ip address and port and there absolutely must not be a firewall or router blocking or it completely won't work.

The ip would probably resemble something like this if it's another computer on a LAN:

192.168.1.103:62007

(listening port 62007 in the 2nd computer's Bittorrent client)

[Brightneon]

Thanks, i gone from 54% to 94% but couple of the files are different sizes, but two despite appearing to be same size refuse to show as 100% when force recheck, could it be the orginal was incomplete or corrupt?

Any fix?

[Firon]

Pieces are shared between files, so if one file is incomplete, you'll lose some pieces in the complete file.

[Brightneon]

I am not able get torrent to 100%. I read some of the files and found website they come from, finally. 16 pdfs are corrupt, so downloaded from the authors web. But file sizes don't match those reported in the torrent. But I got it done thanks.