On Sun, 20 May 2007 15:48:18 Bill Burkhardt wrote: > Cool..... Thanks for the info Alex, I'll give it a try.
Also works on any file you may have downloaded using FTP/HTTP transfer... I've had occasions when I've downloaded an ISO (OpenSUSE 10.2 was the most recent) from my ISP's mirror, only to find it was corrupted. So instead of trying the entire download again, I've grabbed the torrent, and used that to repair the download. (Only problem with the OpenSUSE download was that the torrent had a directory, the ISO, md5sum and sha1sum and a manifest file. Cured that by exiting BT, moving the ISO into the new directory and re-starting BT...). Seems there were only 3 chunks which didn't match, and they took 5 seconds to grab. > > Thanks again, > > Bill... > > On May 20, 2007, at 1:37 AM, Alex Fisher wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2007 14:33:12 Bill Burkhardt wrote: > >> Niel, > >> > >> Same problem here... 4 days of a Torrent and a bad installer. > >> > >> Anyone know about how I can get around this? Not going to put up with > >> another 4 days. > > > > No need to download the entire thing again. Just deleter > > the .torrent file > > from your client, then open the torrent again, making certain to > > save it in > > exactly the same location and with the identical file name. > > BitTorrent will > > then re-hash the file on your machine, check all the chunks against > > the > > standard, and download *only* those chunks which are corrupted. > > That can take > > as little as 10 seconds. > > > >> Bill... > >> -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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