Re: [Mldonkey-users] Download to correct an existing file

[romildo]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:48:02AM +0100, Andre Hinrichs wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2003 10:21, address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > I have alread downloaded a file and I have burnt
> > it into a CD. Now the CD is demaged and I cannot
> > read the complete file from the CD without errors
> > anymore. Then I want to download this file again,
> > but only the parts which are bad. How can I achieve
> > this? Is it enough to copy the defectif file to
> > the temp directory of mldonkey and rename it to the
> > hash of the correct file (found with a search)?
> 
> I once had the same problem and I just copied the file to the incoming 
> directory and started the download again. After restarting MLdonkey it builds 
> the hashes of the new file in incoming and recognizes that the new download 
> needs some of the chunks and copies them. After that you can savely delete 
> the file in the incoming directory.
> I'm not quite sure if this is working without restarting the MLdonkey.
> I just restarted MLdonkey.

That procedure worked for me. I have found the link for the
file and started a new download from it. Then I stopped
mldonkey and copied the file with errors to the
mldonkey incoming directory. After restarting, mldonkey
copied most of the chunks for the downloading file from
the file with erros from the incoming directory. Then I
stopped mldonkey and removed the erroneous file from the
incoming directory. Now mldonkey is finishing the
downloding of the file. It was able to get about 90%
of the erroneous file.

Thanks for the tips.

Romildo
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