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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: rubyred on November 19, 2007, 11:01:59 AM

Title: Transferred V Completed
Post by: rubyred on November 19, 2007, 11:01:59 AM

I recently had to shut down my lap top. Before I shut down a number of videos I had been downloading were almost complete. When I re-started the Transferred column showed the files as almost complete but the Completed column ( and the status bar) indicated they had only just begun transferring ie 487MB Transferred v 12 MB completed.

Can anyone explain the difference?

Thanks

Title: Re: Transferred V Completed
Post by: skolnick on November 20, 2007, 04:24:58 AM

Your files got cuorrupted somehow when you closed aMule (most probably you didn't wait for it to shutdown properly). The transfered column is the amount of data aMule has transfered for a download, and the completed is the size of data that actually has been put into the file. The rest has been wasted for some reason (corrupted chunks, or whatever).

Regards.

Title: Re: Transferred V Completed
Post by: rubyred on November 20, 2007, 05:06:01 AM

Thanks for the reply.

Could that account for  an (almost) 500 MB difference between the Transferred and Completed columns, 300MB in another download?

I noticed that when the download completed the 500 MB difference remained with the Transferred column showing  1.1 Gig transferrred for a 600MB file.

Title: Re: Transferred V Completed
Post by: rubyred on November 29, 2007, 04:55:55 AM

OK!?!?.........no answer to that one. How bout the opposite. I've just downloaded a video file worth 800MB. The file displayed as completed with 800 MB  displayed in the Completed column but only 1.89 MB in the Transferred column???. When you open the file nothing happens

Thanks

Title: Re: Transferred V Completed
Post by: wuischke on November 29, 2007, 10:08:18 AM

This is a fake file, forget about it. It is highly-compressible (i.e. consist probably only of binary zeros) and therefore you can get the whole 800MB of unusable data with the transfer of only 1.89MB highly compressed data.