Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: recovering files

[Sven Hartge]

Um 14:12 Uhr am 28.02.03 schrieb mdew:

> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 13:51, Sven Hartge wrote:
> > Um 13:49 Uhr am 28.02.03 schrieb mdew:
> >
> > > recover_temp
> > > done
> > >
> > > "done" came up pretty quick, as if it did nothing. my files arent
> > > recovered :(
> >
> > Be patient, this can take some while. With "while" being measured in hours
> > and days and not seconds.

> patient? my harddisk isnt doing anything, recover_temp isnt doing
> anything.

It is, it is. The files are readded to your files.ini, and mldonkey then
goes on the hunt for the chunk-hashes. You have to wait until these are
complete.

> why doesnt mldonkey just fingerprint the temp files instead, sorta like
> what emule does...so as long as you have the temp files intact, it'll
> know what the filename and hash is...so you'll never need to
> "recover_temp" again (if it ever works).

Well it does do this. The filename is the main-hash and the size is, well,
the size. Those infos are sufficient to recover all needed infos like
filename and chunk-hashes from the net.

This is a _very_ good way to do this, as I am right now cursing at emule,
because it uses those part.met files to store the infos, so I cannot just
drop my temp-files from mldonkey into the emule temp-dir and have it
rehash the already downloaded parts. No, I have to use a tool like
MetMedic to recover the bytes.

As I told you:

  *You* *have* *to* *be* *patient.* *It* *takes* *some* *time.* *Trust*
  *me.* *Really.*

S°