For example there is filename, size, available, complete etc.
I am not sure what "available" means, but my main concern is the "complete" column. Almost none of the files have 100% so does this mean it is pointless downloading them
Despite this, some of the file names list the file as complete, even though it may only be 22% complete under the complete column.
Practically no files ever appear as 100% complete in this column, so I now don't think it is a problem, but what I am wondering is how do I select a file which will be quick to download, and more IMPORTANTLY how do I know which files are not complete and are pointless in downloading (I don't want a situation where I download 85% of a film, and then it stays on this for 3 months as no-one else has the remainder of the file)
I know this will happen from time to time, but it would be helpful if someone could tell me what to look out for so I know when a file is not complete. I thought it would be impossible for people to list an incomplete file, but perhaps not.
I did try clicking on a rare film before, and received the message "the file is not complete meaning you may not be able to download it all would you like to continue?"
I was actually delighted to see this, as I took it to mean that if there had been a problem with all the other films I am downloading not being complete surely I would have received the same message when attempting to download those files earlier.
2.Also some files are in red, some in blue,and some in black. I think red files are ones I am already downloading, but not sure the difference between blue and black.
3.The other thing I wanted to ask about is waiting times when connecting to emule. Earlier I had about 7 films downloading, including Ponette at about 20kbs, but it crashed and I had to connect again. Now I have been waiting for around an hour on high id but still not a single file is downloading. Is this because I have to wait in the queue again for all the files? If so it would seem there are huge advantages to just keeping emule running in the background constantly. I expected to wait a few minutes to connect and get speed up, but I thought at least 1 file would be downloading by now, abouy 8 people are uploading from me, but i'm downloading nothing
As you can probably tell I am a little confused, but once it is explained I should have no problem in understanding. I just don't want to be wasting my time, getting my hopes up about a file waiting for it to download, when it has no chance of doing so as its not even there.
Thanks for any help
