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I once loooong ago tried downloading a rare music album but it was stuck at 99.8% with 0 seeders and 2 peers (including me) for months so I was pretty bummed.
by leokennis 5y ago
I once loooong ago tried downloading a rare music album but it was stuck at 99.8% with 0 seeders and 2 peers (including me) for months so I was pretty bummed.
But I neglected to actually check the download folder. When I did, I found out it actually downloaded all the important files, just the logo of the upload group was still a .part file…
So I quickly downloaded another more popular release by the same group, copied over the logo and lo and behold, now it got to 100%!
That day I actually felt like a hacker…
- FalconSensei 5y agoThat's nice! When it happens with me, it's like a torrent with 1 large file + the unnecessary files (txt, nfo from the upload group), and the missing .1% is on the file I want :/ But then, occasionally 1 or 2 gets completed, and then I'm happy
- stjohnswarts 5y agoThis is why such things should be in archives but individual files, as least people can get a significant portion of the files from the torrent.
- rozab 5y agoMy torrent client (deluge) gives the option to check which files in the torrent I want to download when I add it. So bittorrent already has this facility, and it's probably how this situation arose in the first place.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI was talking about zipping all the files into one big zip/xz/whatever, torrents don't allow those to be broken up into "little files". All bittorrent clients I've used have the ability to select which files (-not- in an archive) you want to download, but default to "all"
- rasz 5y agoI got a free Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy CD set in 2003 because second disk had a deep scratch making less than megabyte of a 700MB data file unreadable. Found a torrent that wasnt a repack and it synced perfectly at 90 something % :-)