[Mldonkey-users] Multi-network download

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Hi there,

so I have found this file of choice in the net, about 170 MB in size.

I can get it in the bittorrent network, using Azureus, at about 100K/s. 
But at 96.6 %, the download stops. No more chunks available.

On the donkey network, using mldonkey, the file appears complete 
occasionaly, but the download speed sticks at about 0.2 K/s. This makes 
14 days for the download if the file is still available, then.


So I tried to combine both. Moving from mldonkey to Azureus is easy. 
Simply disable "fast resume mode", stop Azureus, copy the mldonkey temp 
file over the partial Azureus download, restart Azureus and after a 
minute, all is fine. Since the chunks on bittorrent are typically 256 
KB, it doesn't matter wether a few partial downloaded ones are 
discarded. Downloads resume after few minutes.


The other direction becomes more difficult. So I stopped mldonkey, 
deleted files.ini, copied the 96.6 % download from Azureus over the 
mldonkey temp file, restarted mldonkey, did a scan_temp and 
recover_temp. After some minutes, mldonkey recognised four chunks as 
being complete. Four *sigh*. This makes about 25 % or 70 % download 
lost.

Another approach whould be to simply put the Azureus download into 
incoming/, then restart mldonkey. No recover_temp needed if you are 
fine with discarding the partial donloaded chunks.


So the question is, how whould you tell mldonkey about partial 
downloaded chunks? I can see the 0/1/2 notation in the single file 
view, but can't find an equivalent somewhere in the .ini files. 
mldonkey does remember it somewhere since partial downloaded chunks 
survive a mldonkey restart (unlike Azureus).


Thanks,
M