Many thanks, Hans, I'd be interested.  If you find it, I can
help with the integration.

Mihai

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Hans de Graaff wrote:

> 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


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