On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: > Actually these files very often can be rescued by getting rid > of a certain amount of the incriminated chunk. I do by hand > the following: > > * take note of the offset generating the mismatch; > > * quit gtkg; > > * edit fileinfo by subtracting 1-3Mb out of the chunk causing > problems, the free space bounday after it, and the DONE field; > > * restart gtkg and the mismatch usually disappears. > > The 1-3Mb amount is arbitrary chosen in doing by hand, but gtkg > can do automatically a much better job in backtracking in, say, > 128kb increments, up to achieving a match. It would be nice > to have such a feature, it very often saves several hundred > Mb of downloads.
I have a patch for this approach lying around somewhere. I could dig it up and make it work with current CVS if people are interested. Hans ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
