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Bittorennt resume download after uninstall

Asked by: kiranvj

hi,

i downloaded almost 400 mb of a 500mb download. At this time some computer repair person uninstalled the bittorrent from my system.

but i have all the incomplete files in my "My documents->BitTorrent Downloads".

Can i resume the download from where it has stopped.

thanks in advance

kiranvj

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2006-07-12 at 00:22:58ID21916225
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Answers

 

by: SheharyaarSaahilPosted on 2006-07-12 at 01:02:00ID: 17088610

sure you can, install bittorrent again, and open the torrent file, it will ask where to save, choose that location where the partial download file is lying, and it will resume the downlaoded file.

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-12 at 02:13:18ID: 17088891


hi,

i installed bittorrent again and choose the location My Documents\BitTorrent Downloads\BitTorrent\incomplete\378cbf95-4158

my older files are stored in a folder named 378cbf95-4158 in the incomplete folder. But the bittorrent is creating a new folder automatically and downloading to the new folder.

what could be wrong, is this ok?

kiranvj

 

by: SheharyaarSaahilPosted on 2006-07-12 at 02:20:24ID: 17088941

what folder is creating.... do you remember how did you store the files before?
coz you have to store exactly as same as you saved it before.
like if you saved it to incomplete, and it should be saved to incomplete now, so that it can look into that 378... folder.

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-12 at 02:31:22ID: 17089010


it asked me to specify the download folder with default setting C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\BitTorrent Downloads

i clicked ok, this was the folder i selected during my download. But again its creating a new folder in the incomplete folder named 378cbf95-4dc3

the old folder 378cbf95-4158 has all the files which i downloaded first.

 

by: SheharyaarSaahilPosted on 2006-07-12 at 02:32:52ID: 17089017

you are running the same torrent file.... right?

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-12 at 02:34:02ID: 17089022


yes the same file i downloaded during my first time

 

by: rockiroadsPosted on 2006-07-12 at 04:04:07ID: 17089382

Do u know the name of the file it will eventually produce?
e.g.

fred.avi

what u can do is copy your incomplete file to some location, say c:\mydownloads\fred.avi

Now when u start your torroent, specify this directory to download to c:\mydownloads

it should be clever enough to read what's currently been downloaded and continue

 

by: NicoLaanPosted on 2006-07-12 at 04:09:09ID: 17089399

Quick and dirty solution that I hope works:

Close bittorrent
Move partially completed files from old location to new location. Delete old now empty folder.
Start bittorrent and resume download.

You are using the same version of your bittorrent client?
Some clients add extra data to the downloaded file.

Before you resume you might also try a "hash check" first, usually found by right clicking the torrent in your torrent client.

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-12 at 05:46:38ID: 17089944

hi rockiroads,
i tried ur method, but it a creating a new folder and storing the downloads in that folder.

hi NicoLaan,
there are 30 files in the old folder and in the new folder there is only one file called file26.rar
in old folder there are files from file01.rar to file29.rar.
I copied all files except file26.rar to new folder. So far no errors. But i dont know if BitTorrent will detect the partially downloaded files which i copied.

i will get back to u soon.

thanks for your replies.

kiranvj

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-12 at 05:49:56ID: 17089974


sorry the names of the files are file.part01.rar, file.part02.rar,file.part03.rar......file.part29.rar

 

by: NicoLaanPosted on 2006-07-12 at 07:59:32ID: 17091126

When you do a "hash check" the client will check what parts it has completed.
So you should after that see it at 80% or something. (400MB of 500MB)
Depending on the tracker and the size of the download it can take some time, but 500MB shouldn't take a minute.
You will see the percentage that is being checked go from 0 to 100% and after that it will show how much of the download is actually completed.

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-12 at 22:10:03ID: 17096865

hi,

NicoLaan how to do a hash check, as u suggested i copied all the files to the new folder, but BitTorrent is not detecting it. Its showing 0.1% completed.

kiranvj

 

by: rockiroadsPosted on 2006-07-12 at 22:33:22ID: 17096934

Try a different client, something like Azuerus or BitComet, both of which allow u to specify what directory u want


Now you saw your current torrent create a directory and place files there, when clicking the torrent file, does it not prompt you whatsoever?

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-12 at 23:05:14ID: 17097026

hi rockiroads,

it will asks for the folder to save downloadfiles, but when i select the old folder it automatically creates a new folder inside that folder and saves the files in the new folder.

kiranvj

 

by: rockiroadsPosted on 2006-07-12 at 23:07:50ID: 17097043

Ok, so what I suggest then is pause your download (or exit client)

then copy the old files into this new folder
then restart, resume that torrent download,

Ive done this before in the past and I know it works. I use both Azeureus and BitComet

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-13 at 02:12:26ID: 17097799

hi rockirods,

>>Ok, so what I suggest then is pause your download (or exit client)
>>then copy the old files into this new folder
>>then restart, resume that torrent download,

i have done as NicoLaan said before. But the problem still exists.

and i am now downloading BitComet as u suggested.

kiranvj

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-13 at 02:56:14ID: 17098016


Hi,

BitComet solved the problem, i copied all incomplete files to the new BitComet download folder and i think it is working fine. BitComet detected all my incomplete files. and BitComet is more advanced that BitTorrent.

SheharyaarSaahil, rockiroads and  NicoLaan , thank you for your help.
All your replies has been informational.

I am increasing the points and spliting, and accepting rockiroads answer since bitComet worked fine.

250 as i initial said + 100 + 100

thank you once agian

kiran

 

by: rockiroadsPosted on 2006-07-13 at 03:24:29ID: 17098154

No probs, glad your up and running.

And to sign off, remember to seed and keep up that ratio  :)

Good luck

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2006-07-13 at 04:41:17ID: 17098510

>>And to sign off, remember to seed and keep up that ratio  :)

Sure :)

 

by: NicoLaanPosted on 2006-07-13 at 12:06:11ID: 17102640

Good to hear you got it solved and thanks for the points.

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