[Mldonkey-users] Re: recovering lost downloads

[Sven Hartge]

Goswin Brederlow <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bjoern Boschman <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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
 
> I just had another user on irc with all his downloads aparently gone.

Yes, this was me. (Thank you _very_ much Goswin! You saved my day.)

> Mainly that happens if you kill mldonkey at an odd moment (kill as in
> ctrl-c not as in "kill" command in one of the guis).

Or if your fuse trips and everything goes dead on instant.

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

Since in my case, all file_md4s were still in the files.ini, just the
ranges in file_absent_chunks were reset as if no byte had been
downloaded, so mldonkey would start all over again.

But the perforate_file saved me from downloading about 2GB again, though
there are some losses, chunks which have not been completed are lost.

But better lose some MB per file as the whole file, if it has been
nearly completed.

S°

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