Christian Biere said:
> T.F. Cheng wrote:
>> sometimes I find there is a "*.BAD" file appeared in
>> the download and most of the time the download is
>> almost finished.
>
> It should be completely "finished".
>
>> why does this happen? and how "BAD" is the file?
>
> It means that the SHA1 checksum doesn't match the contents of the file.
> As it's impossible for now to tell which part of the file is corrupted,
> the complete file must be considered bad. Well, if the data uses a
> redundant format like MPEG, it might still be (somewhat) useful for you
> but usually the file is completely useless then.

Hmmm, I've often had BAD files turn up in ~/tmp that where OK (although
they may not of had a good SHA1). Of course if you know what the SHA1
should be and its Tiger Tree hash is available in the Bitzi catalog you
could probably have a good stab at replacing the bad section.
>
> --
> Christian


-- 
Alex
http://www.bennee.com/~alex/




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