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Title: Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi
Post by: ijzer on August 10, 2007, 05:39:55 PM

Hi all,

I'm getting the same error over and over: "Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi"

It seems to me that (because the error gets repeated over and over) there is no corruption during tranfers but either this part is corrupted on the peers harddisk of there is something  wrong with the file-hash.

Any ideas for a remedy?

Title: Re: Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi
Post by: skolnick on August 11, 2007, 06:01:40 AM

Have you tried using the file to see if it works? if it's a movie, and only a byte is corrupte, most probably you won't notice it. Or check your hard drive, the part may be is saved to a bad sector and therefore it always fails the hash.

Regards.

Title: Re: Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi
Post by: ijzer on August 11, 2007, 12:11:23 PM

Yeah it's a movie file and it plays fine.

How do i get amule to accept the corrupted part?

Title: Re: Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi
Post by: skolnick on August 12, 2007, 02:33:11 AM

aMule will not accept it unless the part matches the hash specified in the .part.met file. I've seen cases where this file gets corrupted and some part will always appear as corrupted but is in fact fine (the corrupted is the hash, not the part) but these cases are very rare.

Regards.

Title: Re: Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi
Post by: ijzer on August 12, 2007, 08:38:52 AM

Yeah it may be rare, but it seems that i'm having that problem right now. How do i repair the .met file??

Title: Re: Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi
Post by: skolnick on August 12, 2007, 10:09:13 PM

Under windows, you may use a program named donkeydoctor. On linux you might have to edit the file manually using a hex editor. I'm writing a little software that might help in these cases, but it is currently read-only (it will open .met files, it shows their contents, but it will not modify them) and I don't know when will it be finished.

Regards.

Title: Re: Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi
Post by: ijzer on August 14, 2007, 10:46:57 AM

Does there exist a guide or something on editing these *.met files?

Can i get amule to recalculate hashes? Can ik ban sources that keep on giving me corrupt parts?

Title: Re: Downloaded part 35 is corrupt in file: movie.avi
Post by: IhmSelbst on August 14, 2007, 11:04:08 AM

You also can try bigwillystyle's metfileregenerator, available for win, linux and mac.

Download:
http://www.bigwillystyle42.com/mfr/ (http://www.bigwillystyle42.com/mfr/)

Howtos:
http://www.bigwillystyle42.com/mfr/howtos/ (http://www.bigwillystyle42.com/mfr/howtos/)


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