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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: vanfanel on January 13, 2007, 11:41:12 PM

Title: How do I recover lost temp files
Post by: vanfanel on January 13, 2007, 11:41:12 PM

Hi everybody,

I have this huge problem.
I am downloading to an external hard drive. It happens every once in a while that it gets suddenly disconnected while a-mule is downloading (a crash, act of God, or whatever). A-mule crashes as a consequence.

When I restart it, it has lost all files that it was actively downloading. It gives me an error message saying that the part.met files and part.met.bak files are 0 kb and that the .part files cannot be recovered. Every time I lose several files that I may have been downloading for weeks or even months. It is very frustrating.

So my question is: do you know of a way I can recover those files? I still have the .part files. It just seems like a-mule cannot recognize them any longer. Is there something I can do?

Thanks,


Sidney

Title: Re: How do I recover lost temp files
Post by: wuischke on January 14, 2007, 02:53:39 AM

When you still know which files you where downloading:

Readd the download to the list and wait until it loaded some data and saved it to the .part-file. Now shut down aMule and replace the newly created .part-file with the oldone. Start aMule and it should be hashing the file according to the old content.

BTW: Try disabling write caching on your external hdd, I think this might help.

Title: Re: How do I recover lost temp files
Post by: vanfanel on January 17, 2007, 01:03:45 AM

Thanks for your answer.

But I tried to do as you say and it did not work. Maybe I am doing something wrong.


Do you know how to disable the write caching in the external hard drive?

Thanks,

Van Fanel

Title: Re: How do I recover lost temp files
Post by: Supersnail on January 17, 2007, 12:27:53 PM

http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/AMule_problems#I_just_lost_a_download._Is_there_any_way_I_can_recover_it?