Corrupt part.met

[billanben]

Hi all

Need to either repair or to find out what the download was that this corrupted file referred to (just says xxxpart.met corrupted in log - usually gives film name but for some reason not this time).

Anyone know how to :-

1. Repair such files

2. Find out what the underlying download was ?

Thanks for any help

**** hard disk !!

[emileczek]

Find xxxpart.met.bak than rename it to xxxpart.met
File is in "temp" folder of your emule

[emuler]

Check out nRepart http://emuleplus.info/files/nRePart.zip

http://emuleplus.info/forum/index.php?s ... /FAQ/Tools

Which client are you using? Mine (eMule Plus) has a .part.txtsrc file which has the complete ed2k link inside. If yours doesn't have this, open .part.met with Notepad or a HEX editor and among the garbage you'll find the file name near the end.

[Rich]

sometimes part of a download will be corrupt, usually due to incomplete transfer, emule should automatically detect it (hence the error message) and redownload it. the error message is nothining to worry about if that's what you're thinking

if you have completed the download and the downloaded file (.avi) is corrupt, there's a program called divfix that may correct it, however if you share it again it will become a different hash after divfix

[billanben]

Thanks to all for help. The problem is that when downloading to a USB disk, it sometimes cannot handle the flow of traffic through caching, and the result is that Windows detects it as a disk caching error an immediately disables the disk from any more writes. This will cause the file you were writing to become corrupt. IF you can catch it at first symptom (a bleeping from the disk), you can shut down emule without corruption, if you don't - the file will be corrupted. Up until now have been locating the file (when you restart emule gives you name of corrupt file) and deleting and redownloading - a pain if you are already 95% complete ! Found this little baby on emule forum and it seems to have worked a treat ! Install, select directory where corrupt file is, go into recover mode y voila ! You then delete the file you were downloading as this will be detected as a duplicate file and is in any case corrupt.

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[ghost]

The problem is that when downloading to a USB disk, it sometimes cannot handle the flow of traffic through caching, and the result is that Windows detects it as a disk caching error an immediately disables the disk from any more writes.

You didn't tell us that you're downloading to an USB stick

[emuler]

ghost: not stick; external HDD connected via USB.

billanben: avoid using the USB disk for temp folders as they are accessed very frequently. Much better to move some of your shared files there, thus freeing up space on your main, internal HDD.

There is also a possibility that your drives are configured to shut down after some time if idle. While this is not affecting your internal drive as Windows will try to keep the disk active, for external and additional drives this means that when you try to access it, the drive has to start from a stopped condition and the disks take several seconds to build up speed. Check the power management settings for your computer.

btw, don't share the root of your partitions; eg. don't share F:, rather make a folder and share the folder instead, eg. F:\emule shared\. This is for security purposes.

[ghost]

ghost: not stick; external HDD connected via USB.

Do i need some glasses?

[billanben]

Hi EM

You are decsribing something I see but cannot understand why - namely I have checked settings both in OS and BIOS for these drives (and all drives etc), the power options are all turned off, BUT the drive continues to go "offline" after a period of non-use. Contacted the vendor but they have no ideas. Any suggestions where this may be configured ?

[emuler]

3 places to look: BIOS, Control Panel>Power Options, and Control Panel>System>Device Manager. If you don't see these iscons in Control Panel, switch to classic view.

In device manager, check the properties for the USB controller as well as for the HDD itself.

Do you still have a problem if you use the external drives only for shared folders, ie. for uploading? Enable verbose logging in eMule (debug log in eMule Plus) to see if there are any error messages related to packet creation.

Did I mention that I dislike external USB casings? I had to return my external casing for a DVD writer as it was creating coasters. GRRR!! Even burning CDRs would fail after successfully writing 2 CDs.