Too many incomplete files?

[SonsOfLiberty]

Well, I just finished downloading a video game with 78 .rar files of 98 MB each.

Every single one of them is incomplete. Also, when I use QuickPar to analyze the files, every .rar file is 97% complete, meaning it is only missing one data block.

What's going on?

Go to a NZB search engine, like NZBIndex and/or Binsearch, and search the files you downloaded and see if it's got "red" below the release name at all, red means it's INC, if it shows it's incomplete there, means it's incomplete...but if it shows complete, it might be missing blocks on your server, just get a cheap "fill account" for like $5 and see if it's still incomplete. It depends on how old they are too....the age range There's more factors going into this though, but if it happens on "every" download, you may want to contact your providers support/help site.

I personally use NewsLeecher and never pay attention to INC's, it auto repairs and extracts, and downloads pars auto if needed...

[slaughterads]

It could just be a retention problem

you are conflating retention and completion

[taniquetil]

Wow, I just had a really strange solution to the problem that probably doesn't make any sense.

I downloaded a game (around 7 GB) from alt.binaries.x and got every one of the 90 .rar files incomplete, about 75 of them only missing one data block.

I then downloaded the same file from alt.binaries.boneless and got most of the files incomplete and was able to repair the entire post using QuickPar.

What just happened?

[c0ld]

I'd have thought that most downloaders would check for missing parts in cross posted groups automagically. What are you using?

[taniquetil]

I'm using Binverse.

[cola]

I'd have thought that most downloaders would check for missing parts in cross posted groups automagically. What are you using?

If you're using an NZB, theres no reason since all the messages will have the same message-IDs regardless of which groups they were crossposted in.