Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: recovering files

[mdew]

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:20, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Um 14:12 Uhr am 28.02.03 schrieb mdew:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 13:51, Sven Hartge wrote:
> > > Um 13:49 Uhr am 28.02.03 schrieb mdew:
> > >
> > > > recover_temp
> > > > done
> > > >
> > > > "done" came up pretty quick, as if it did nothing. my files arent
> > > > recovered :(
> > >
> > > Be patient, this can take some while. With "while" being measured in hours
> > > and days and not seconds.
> 
> > patient? my harddisk isnt doing anything, recover_temp isnt doing
> > anything.
> 
> It is, it is. The files are readded to your files.ini, and mldonkey then
> goes on the hunt for the chunk-hashes. You have to wait until these are
> complete.
> 
> > why doesnt mldonkey just fingerprint the temp files instead, sorta like
> > what emule does...so as long as you have the temp files intact, it'll
> > know what the filename and hash is...so you'll never need to
> > "recover_temp" again (if it ever works).
> 
> Well it does do this. The filename is the main-hash and the size is, well,
> the size. Those infos are sufficient to recover all needed infos like
> filename and chunk-hashes from the net.
> 
> This is a _very_ good way to do this, as I am right now cursing at emule,
> because it uses those part.met files to store the infos, so I cannot just
> drop my temp-files from mldonkey into the emule temp-dir and have it
> rehash the already downloaded parts. No, I have to use a tool like
> MetMedic to recover the bytes.
> 
> As I told you:
> 
>   *You* *have* *to* *be* *patient.* *It* *takes* *some* *time.* *Trust*
>   *me.* *Really.*

ok Its done something

it recovered some (9) files, and put some (7) files as filenames

"2743DD4E0CBA715FADC91F194BEAE16B"
"3C51F93E178AADCC029DA095F066496C"

is there anyway to recover the these properly?

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mdew <address@hidden>