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Title: How can i read incomplete files?
Post by: aachim on August 08, 2006, 02:27:12 PM

Hello,
i'm on mac intel-osx and i want to know if is possible to read incomplete files (Temp - .part files) ?
thanks a lot !!!

Title: Re: How can i read incomplete files?
Post by: Gerd78 on August 08, 2006, 03:17:06 PM

In general, you can't. It really depends on the type of data your are currently downloading.

If it's a streamable video or audio codec, just try to open it in a streaming media player. If it's something like PDF or an archive, the incomplete file is probably just unusable (=trash).

Title: Re: How can i read incomplete files?
Post by: lionel77 on August 08, 2006, 07:27:14 PM

As Gerd said, it really depends on the file type. Video and audio files typically work, pdf files, word files (*gasp*), and the like usually don't.

Take a look at the Readme.Mac.txt file that comes with the Mac version of aMule. At the very bottom, there is a section on how to set up aMule to use VLC for previewing media files.

Regarding archives, you can actually try to extract files from them, even when they are incomplete. This usually works best for archives that contain a lot of smaller files rather than a few bigger ones. I often do this myself with rar or zip files that contain audio material to get an idea of the bitrate, sampling rate, and number of channels that were used for encoding the material.