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[bliumchik]

Yess! finally, success. Azureas has been pissing me off for months now, and Stan suggested I try utorrent. But what, I asked, am I to do about the downloads that are stalled at half-done on Azureas? I don't want to restart them, it's a waste. So apparently if you open the torrent in another program and save the file to the exact same place it will keep the bits you already have.

I just spent about an hour trying to figure out what Azureas has done with my bloody torrent files. Only to discover that all I had to do was right-click a download, go to "column set-up" or whatever, and check "show torrent location". Duuuuuh.

Now almost everything is just peachy, but can somebody please tell me what the hell a cyclical redundancy check is and why there is a data error in it?

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

CRC is typically a method of error detection -- if a data error's popping up in a CRC of a torrent, generally something got corrupted at some point. But then, it should redownload the corrupted data an everything should be happyfinegood.

If you're getting consistent CRC errors, though, especially one a specific part of a specific torrent, then it's something wrong on a much deeper level than just data transmission. Then it could be anything from a catastrophically-horrid torrent (...in theory; I'm not sure if it's possible for a torrent to be so misshapen as to throw CRC errors) to an inherent bug in the torrent client (very likely). But most often CRC errors are just sporadic from noise or garbled data. If they're not sporadic, then they're a symptom of Something Very Bad.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

It's only the one, but it appears to have stalled the whole download.

[lackofmendacity.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what that entire entry was about, but I shan't be ashamed of my inadequacy with technology! *wibbles*

In an attempt to be helpful, I suggest you email Ruxi, Mel or Jenny for help - former IPT students, if you recall. :)

[cynicky.livejournal.com]

Heh, utorrent, never did anything for me, primarily because the wireless network that we use is in some way incompatible and utorrent said that on its website (really what were the odds?), I've found azureus to be much better. The actual bittorrent client is pretty nice though, really plain and basic so you can't screw it up, it's just a slightly more complicated version of you average download window.

[http://users.livejournal.com/tryx_/]

Azureus is a nice client, unfortunately java tends to becomes slow-as-hell (techincal term) when you have more than 2 or 3 torrents running at the same time. lol, weird about the wireless card though. Official client is really annoying if you want to seed old files, or you want to manage a few torrents.