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Benno
12-10-2003, 11:04 PM
Is it possible to get corrupted files when downloading with mirc?

i downloaded a few albums and when I check them with the svf file I get a CRC missmatch on two songs. Does this mean that the bot is serving a corrupt file or did it get corrupted during download? I mean would it help if I redownload the same album?

thanks Benno

abu_has_the_power
12-10-2003, 11:53 PM
yes it's possible. i dled the 60 min report for my speech, and the 1st time i tried, it was corrupt. had to dl again from another channel

wh1te
12-11-2003, 07:16 AM
I have never gotten a currupt file from IRC but maybe that is just me what files were you downloading and from what channel so that i know

THX

WH1TE

Benno
12-11-2003, 07:32 AM
Music Album I got them from #MetalHeadz on Efnet

The tar files worked fine just when I checked the songs with the svf file I got a CRC missmatch wih 2 songs.

Benno
12-12-2003, 02:16 PM
oh come on, where are the IRC junkies on this board?
just a short reply shouldnt be to much work :)

muchspl2
12-12-2003, 02:19 PM
yes its possible


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I wish they had par files, man I can&#39;t believe them, they&#39;re like magic, but you only see them on news gourps ;)

wh1te
12-13-2003, 04:15 AM
corruption can happen in a few ways when you get disconnected while downloading it is corrupted when opening ar the bot has a currupted file just try somewhere else

Benno
12-13-2003, 05:54 PM
ok thanks all

newcster68
12-14-2003, 11:51 AM
http://domania.us/LWN2003/KazaaLite/XP_LOGO2.PNG Also keep in mind that if you do get a corrupt file, make sure you delete it from your download folder before you resume your download again or you will lose portions of that file if it is in rar format. If you are downloading a file from a certain bot and that bot decides to go offline and you only got half of that file, and u see another bot offering that same identical file...please again delete the prior file from your download folder or it will continue on that same file which corrupts it then. You also get files that are corrupt by packet loss. This can happen mostly with ppl on 56k or dsl and has known to affect cable users also. Just a little help. :D

Benno
12-14-2003, 04:19 PM
So if I have a partial file and want to resume it from a different bot than the originla one, it will get corrupted? even if it is the exact same file?

tracydani
12-14-2003, 04:54 PM
Benno, I am seeing almost all .rar&#39;s and .tar&#39;s getting corrupted lately. Regardless of whether I resume the file from the same source/different source or in one complete download session.

Not sure why, but I just got one movie that is completely missing one of the .rar&#39;s :blink:

Seems like you are better off trying to get something that has not been compressed.

TD

Benno
12-14-2003, 08:11 PM
I downloaded spellforce and one file is corrupted, is there way to get just this one file so that i dont have to download everything again?

tracydani
12-14-2003, 09:25 PM
I&#39;ve noticed in some channels they offer specific pieces for dl. But so far I haven&#39;t been able to locate one I need. I have a few files waiting around hoping for a missing piece.

Sometimes you will find pieces available when searching through ircspy.

Hopefully someone else has a better way of finding them.

TD

muchspl2
12-14-2003, 09:32 PM
if its new, try news gourps, and ask for a specific file
or look around you could find a par file for it and you would be in business

Benno
12-14-2003, 11:05 PM
Got it from #incomplete

Great channel, everybody who doesnt know it yet should check it out, you can visit their homepage here http://www.incomplete.me.uk/

wienerschnitzel
12-15-2003, 04:30 AM
i downloaded anime off of irc and when i watched them they seemed to play fine. But when i help to seed them with BT it says that the file is 99% or something but the file sizes are exactly the same. I guess this means that irc transfers arn&#39;t perfect but most of the time a person never knows the difference. At least this is my guess.

newcster68
12-15-2003, 08:25 AM
http://domania.us/LWN2003/KazaaLite/MsnButterflyLogo2.PNG
By the way, if it makes you feel any better, corruption wasn&#39;t my big issue last night and today. Whatever u do, please make sure you run a antivirus program and a firewall when u download anything from irc. Also when you get a file, make sure you scan it for viruses before u open it. Irc is very well known for getting trojans through your open ports and norton antivirus can miss some or your firewall. I should know cause i picked one up last night and this trojan fucked all my stuff up including my nero software and my xp burning utility. Even froze my pc up..so in short I could not copy nothing I had saved to disk and lost everything, including all my newest movie releases. Got to start from scatch again. :angry: BUMMER&#33;

tracydani
12-15-2003, 12:57 PM
@Benno

Thanks&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; That got me one missing file, now on to the rest:D

TD

Benno
12-15-2003, 01:34 PM
TD dont thank me, Lindorez told me about the channel. All props go to him. :D


newcster
I have sygate and norton but i will be even more carefull in the futur, I dont want to loose my movies too :o

jetje
12-15-2003, 03:51 PM
Benno do you use the latest unzip progs. Last night had the same thing on mp3&#39;s..
After i dl the latest version of winzip i had np at all.. :blink: that fixed the so called error... ;)

stupendo44
12-16-2003, 04:35 AM
Read the pinned article on "advanced irc leeching". It tells how to avoid corruption with rollback.

Stephen

BawA
12-16-2003, 06:34 AM
i was downloading something (tar file) and i left ma download on till tommorow hwne i came back the download was stoped and the bots was offline to, so i resumed it with another bot, is this mean that ma downoad is now corrupted , shit man i was 1.18gb file nad 800 mb was done. now i must start it from begining all over isnt? oo there was a advance leeching Guide and they add some command to avoid corruption, is that usefull?

plz answer fast iam gonna redownload the file

Benno
12-16-2003, 01:13 PM
Hey bawa I downloaded spellforce and i didnt download the whole file from the same bot. In the end one rar file was corrupt, i had to download only 15MB again. So downlaoding from different bots cant be that bad ;)

btw I got the one file i need from the channel i mentioned above :)

BawA
12-16-2003, 01:17 PM
Originally posted by Benno@16 December 2003 - 17:13
Hey bawa I downloaded spellforce and i didnt download the whole file from the same bot. In the end one rar file was corrupt, i had to download only 15MB again. So downlaoding from different bots cant be that bad ;)

btw I got the one file i need from the channel i mentioned above :)
how u did download the corrupted part of file :blink:

Benno
12-16-2003, 01:22 PM
Originally posted by Benno@15 December 2003 - 00:05
Got it from #incomplete

Great channel, everybody who doesnt know it yet should check it out, you can visit their homepage here http://www.incomplete.me.uk/

how u did download the corrupted part of file

It was one of the rar files that were corrupt and i got it from there

stupendo44
12-16-2003, 03:30 PM
bawa@Klite_user, if you still know the bot you were getting the file from the first time, and you know how big the file was, then you can use the "btrunc" command to shrink the file back to where it was rather than start over. Type "/help /btrunc" in any mirc window and it will show you how to use it.

Stephen

Damnatory
12-17-2003, 08:05 AM
Rollback guys&#33;

Paste the following into your script editor:


On *&#58;GETFAIL&#58;*&#58; {
&nbsp;btrunc &#036;filename &#036;iif&#40;&#036;calc&#40;&#036;file&#40;&#036;filename&#41;.size - 1024000 &#41; &#62; 0, &#036;ifmatch, 0&#41;
}
Tools >> Script Editor >> File >> New >> Paste script >> Save As: Rollback.mrc >> Save and Exit.

In your status screen type:

/load -rs rollback.mrc

or if you saved the file in any other place, specify the target before the filename.

The size of the rollback can be changed as well just add the proper amount of zeros, I have it set for 1meg, but the more the better. Rollback redownloads the specific amount of it&#39;s told to, this protects those sudden disconnects and bot drops by redownloading the information at the end that could have been corrupted by the disconnect. (This doesn&#39;t help the corruption of trying to download the same file from a different bot, you&#39;ll need to delete the existing portion to avoid that corruption.)

Benno
12-17-2003, 08:40 PM
@JJ I downlaoded the lates winrar though it didnt help anything. But thats not much of a problem as they files arent big so no problem redownlading :)

@Damnatory thanks I just put it in
though I have one question, on another website i read that I should put


/ctcps on
/raw on
/events on

in connect -> options -> perform
can you tell me what that means and if it is good or bad?

thanks

tracydani
12-17-2003, 10:45 PM
I set up the rollback when I installed. Just followed the newbie guide for the whole thing. Still have a lot of corruption issues.

Just had one movie where I tried to unrar it with each of my programs. All files corrupt. First time for that, it is usually just 1 or 2.

TD

Damnatory
12-18-2003, 11:19 AM
Originally posted by Benno@17 December 2003 - 21:40

/ctcps on
/raw on
/events on
in connect -> options -> perform
can you tell me what that means and if it is good or bad?


Yeah go ahead, I just didn&#39;t post that part as it&#39;s not exactly necessary. The script will work on it&#39;s own.

venom_il
12-18-2003, 01:16 PM
Originally posted by Damnatory+18 December 2003 - 12:19--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Damnatory @ 18 December 2003 - 12:19)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Benno@17 December 2003 - 21:40

/ctcps on
/raw on
/events on
in connect -> options -> perform
can you tell me what that means and if it is good or bad?


Yeah go ahead, I just didn&#39;t post that part as it&#39;s not exactly necessary. The script will work on it&#39;s own. [/b][/quote]
Actually, It wont. at least without the /events :ph34r:

if mIRC doen&#39;st listen to events, the *getfail* in the script won&#39;t be monitored

also, check the second page in the guide in my sig, it seems the script should be adjusted to prevent some long filename problems.. ill update it soon

stupendo44
12-18-2003, 03:41 PM
Here&#39;s the part venom_il just mentioned. If the path to your mIRC download directory contains spaces, then you need to change the rollback script to this:


On *&#58;GETFAIL&#58;*&#58; {
&nbsp;btrunc &#036;+&#40;&#34;,&#036;filename,&#34;&#41; &#036;iif&#40;&#036;calc&#40;&#036;file&#40;&#036;filename&#41;.size - 102400 &#41; &#62; 0, &#036;ifmatch, 0&#41;
}


Stephen