Re: recovering lost downloads [Was: Re: [Mldonkey-users] upgrade from older version]

[crazee_canuck]

Is there a way to do this with the telnet interface?  I've found that
if I "verify chunks" on each file, it does not start from the very
beginning.  Is it possible to "verify chunks" for all files from
telnet or the web interface?



Ed




Monday, October 7, 2002, 10:56:29 PM, you wrote:

GB> Bjoern Boschman <address@hidden> writes:

>> hi guys
>> 
>> I'm using mldonkey-distrib 1.99b4 and wanted to upgrade to the new
>> version, so my question: Is there anything to look at ? Last time when I
>> had moved my mldonkey to another disk all download were lost :(( So I
>> don't want this a second time

GB> I just had another user on irc with all his downloads aparently
GB> gone. It can happen that mldonkey forgets all your files (corrupts the
GB> files.ini). Mainly that happens if you kill mldonkey at an odd moment
GB> (kill as in ctrl-c not as in "kill" command in one of the guis).

GB> But its not that bad. The files are still in the temp dir and
GB> "recover_temp" starts downloading them again. But that will download
GB> everything again it seems.


GB> I added a "Perforate file" to the context menu of mldonkey_gui for
GB> files. Perforate file should scan the file and punch holes in it where
GB> there are only 0 bytes and keep all parts != 0.

GB> At the moment, in its simple implementation, it assumes all of the
GB> file as beeing present and calls verify_chunks (which marks chunks
GB> with bad md4sum as absent again). It needs the file_md4s to work, so
GB> after recover_temp you have to wait for some source to tell you the
GB> md4sums of the blocks.


GB> So in the case, even though its a very faint chance, you are loosing
GB> all your downloads upon upgrade, there is a way to get nearly all
GB> back.

GB> MfG
GB>         Goswin

GB> PS: patch should appear in the patch manager soon
GB> PPS: should mldonkey do this automatically for recovered files?