Corruption

[tracydani]

Benno, I am seeing almost all .rar's and .tar'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's

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

TD

[Benno]

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]

I've noticed in some channels they offer specific pieces for dl. But so far I haven'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]

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]

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]

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't perfect but most of the time a person never knows the difference. At least this is my guess.

[newcster68]

By the way, if it makes you feel any better, corruption wasn'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. BUMMER!

[tracydani]

@Benno

Thanks!!!!! That got me one missing file, now on to the rest

TD

[Benno]

TD dont thank me, Lindorez told me about the channel. All props go to him.


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

[jetje]

Benno do you use the latest unzip progs. Last night had the same thing on mp3's..
After i dl the latest version of winzip i had np at all.. that fixed the so called error...