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English => Feature requests => Topic started by: phoenix_me on February 01, 2006, 03:15:27 AM

Title: Creating of .met files based on file and ed2k link
Post by: phoenix_me on February 01, 2006, 03:15:27 AM

Situation: With some reasons you ale loosing your .met files - but you still have your xxx.part file (for example even 99% downloaded).

To resume your download you need to create .met file based on existing xxx.part and ed2k link which you can find easly manual using searching :).

This "feature" i am asking for should look through your xxx.part file, find zero values, ask about ed2k link, create xxx.met file and resume download.

I know that there can be possibility to create fake files that can make a mess in network, but none of this happend when we won't let upload such files. (only download allowed)

(Sorry - my english is not god )

Title: Re: Creating of .met files based on file and ed2k link
Post by: Vollstrecker on February 01, 2006, 07:24:23 AM

I think you can resume such downloads when you move the .part out auf your Temp dir, restart the download like you started it initially, close amule, move the .part back into the Temp-dir with the new name, and start amule again. When I'm not completely wrong, amule should rehash and resume the file as it was.

Title: Re: Creating of .met files based on file and ed2k link
Post by: ken on February 03, 2006, 04:48:43 AM

You're mostly correct, except for one thing.  You have to wait for the new download to get at least one complete chunk of the file.  Until then, it doesn't have the hash set to use for rehashing the previously downloaded data.