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Gentree
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 Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:04 am Post subject: amule: piecing together incomplete dl bits |
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Hi,
dies anyone know how to peice together all that part file fragements of an incomplete download from amule.
I have a large file that is an archive that is 95% complete but all the stats show it is unlikely that any server has a complete version.
I will take if off my shared area to stop it propagating further but I wondered how to recover what I have got.
It looks like I have 80% contiguous , so I should at least be able to pull something from the rar .
Ideas,
TIA, Gentree. 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| If the archine is rar or zip winrar (should run under wine) is capable of restoring the completed files (given there is a complete file in there and not just one big incomplete file, like a cd/dvd iso or a movie). Option "Repair Archive" |
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Gentree
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:03 am Post subject: |
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Thanks , that was not really what I was asking .
| Code: | prof@newsys ~/.aMule/Temp $ ls
001.part 006.part.met 010.part.met.bak 024.part
001.part.met 006.part.met.bak 016.part 024.part.met
001.part.met.bak 007.part 016.part.met 024.part.met.bak
002.part 007.part.met 016.part.met.bak 025.part
002.part.met 007.part.met.bak 022.part 025.part.met
002.part.met.bak 010.part 022.part.met 025.part.met.bak
006.part 010.part.met 022.part.met.bak
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I think 007* is the file concerned that wont complete. My question is what can best be done with these bits?
looking at the file size it seems all the data must be in *part and presumbably *part.met must be some index into how the bits are stored which will not necessarily be contiguous.
So my question is , is there a tool or technique to extract as much of the file as possible from this data before using an archive repair tool on it?
TIA.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:43 am Post subject: |
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All the data is in the .part file. I don't know the amule interface (will in a few weeks) but all the windows clients allow you to get info of the download in the open gui interface so you don't have to guess what number it is.
I thought that was clear, sorry. Doing it for years.
As I said, all the data from the file are in the .part file. The other files contain managment data, like the file name, the clients that are known to have the file, ...
The data are stored in the way they are in the original file, there is no resorting when the download is complete, just a move of the file to the new filename. The data that arrives gets automatically written to the right position in the file. That does not concern the position on the harddisk, that is why the edonkey clients write so many fragmented files to the disk. But the ordering in the file is always correct!!!
To get the data you just have to copy the 007.part file to another location, rename it to .rar and repair it with winrar (don't know of any other program that can repair rar or zip files this successful). |
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Gentree
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: |
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well can repair a damaged rar, dont know if winrar can get more from it.
it's been a long time since I booted to windows. I could see if winrar can get more off the same partial.
thanks for your suggestions.
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