aMule Forum
English => Multiplatform => Mac OSX => Topic started by: blank on February 23, 2005, 04:39:40 AM
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Hi,
I've just installed amule on a powerbook and must say that I find the interface and features superior to the official edonkey client that I was using previously. Unfortunately I have thirteen downloads in course on my old client, many of them well-advanced. Thus my question is if and how I can import my pre-existing downloads. I looked around the wiki and found
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Import-export_files
but it wasn't clear to me what client temp files were incompatible and honestly, when we ghet into ionstalling the server etc, just so as to import, I get a bit freaked out ;-)
Anyway, it's a noob question, but i hope that someone can give a clear answer.My first impression of the lcient is positive: i'm uploading a lot of data and all the connections seem stable.
anyway, thanks in advance,
blank
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hey
this is a page I just recently found and maybe you can try this is out :)
http://www.bigwillystyle42.com/index.php?dest=mfr
its a programm written in java and it claims in can convert those files ;)
since i dont have any mldonkey files i could not try it, but if this works its way more easy then setting up this server/client enviroment
stefanero
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i think you can only use the met file regenerator to convert old style edonkey temp files to new style temp files; it doesn't allow you to convert from or to mldonkey, *mule, etc. temp files.
maybe we should shoot bigwillystyle (the author of that app) a quick email -- i'm sure he would be more than happy to help migrate people away from the official edonkey client, that he is so furiously fighting for... ;)
@blank
another option would be to run both clients in parallel during the transition period until the downloads in the old client are finished -- if you make them use different ports there shouldn't be any problems.
only thing is, the official edonkey client uses a lot of cpu cycles but if your mac has at least a 1ghz g4 you should be fine.
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hi,
if you run them in parallel you may also dl these files with amule and put your amule user into your emule's friends list until amule has downloaded all chunks from emule.
... m2kio !
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hi,
thanks for the prompt suggestions, which I'm going to try. unfortunately in the meantime my Mac has gone mad ;-( It pretends that the memory is fully allocated and acts as if there is no space left, even when I'm deleting large files so that I'm certain that space is liberated. In any case, that's not a question for this forum but it does lead me to make another query.
There is a known problem with the offivial ed2k clkient where once one is out of disk space the client goes mad. On relaunch it needs to be reconfigured. Pre-existing downloads in progress do not appear in the transfers window -- even though they continue to exist in the temp file -- and the Dante-esque torture with MFR begins. My question is this:
is this a problem also on amule? Does anyone have any experience with this?
blank
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amule should whenever the disk is full (has reached the limit set in the preferences) just stop downloads that want to allocate more diskspace and continue them automagically when space is available again. There was an issue that it didn't restart the downloads automatically and you had to restart them manually, but if I recall correctly that was fixed. There shouldn't be any such mad behaviour as you described it (and I personally would kick every program that acts in such a way from my harddisc).