AvistaZ Asian Community Discussion Forums: A couple of utorrent questions for ya ;) - AvistaZ Asian Community Discussion Forums

OK, I'm doing something wrong here... I want to re-seed just the movie and not the subs. In this pic you can see gandarloda's movie 'iri'. It was completed 100% but when i load it back into utorrent it reads 99.8% and begins to download again. When it finishes it adds a .dat file to my download folder and it lists me as a leecher instead of a seeder


In this pic I've downloaded everything in the torrent...removed it..loaded it back into utorrent skipping the sub/idx/srt files and it checks out 100% so I remove the subtitle files I don't want but then i get this error message eventually.


This is sort of an unrelated question but why is it sometimes I get one file (in this case it's the gandarloda file again) reading 'offline' whilst the 5 files beneath it, from the same tracker are working fine?


Thank you very much for your help

Torrents might update at different times and since the min update rate for avistaz is 60minutes there might be some shown as offline while others seem to still be online (which they aren't of course).

pic2: skipping afterwards doesn't work as you think - the client still knows that you finished those files, therefor the re-check fails (you manually deleted the files that should be there).

pic1: part-leeching = leeching. If you don't have 100% downloaded you'll always be treated as leecher.

Torrents are separated into several small pieces. For e.g. a 1 GB torrent into 250 pieces of 4 MB.
And if you part leech you still need to finish a single piece, if it partially contains files you want to download.
This is obviously thew case for subtitles or nfo files everytime.
Even for very small chunk sizes, but you might not notice it.

Still it is advantageous to use the max available chunk size to save overhead bandwidth, because the more chunks the more traffic is used between all clients to communicate ("i have chunk 147 complete and i want to dl chunk xy" ... and all other clients need to respond to that request/msg).
Only time where small chunk sizes are useful is, when your torrent consists of many small files, like pictures only.

Example1:
1000 MB torrent @ 4mb chunk size --> 999.5 MB movie + 0.5 mb subtitle ---> the subtitles file is smaller than the chunk size and thereforyou can not not download it because the 250th chunk is needed for the movie anyway.

Example2:
1000 MB torrent @ 4mb chunk size --> 994 MB movie + 6 mb subtitle ---> the subtitles file is larger than the chunk size. This means if you skip the subs you'll need to download 249 chunks which are 996 mb while the 250th piece will be skipped indeed.

Thanks Montezuma, I didn't realise there could be an overlap between the movie and the subs. I thought i was doing something wrong..thanks for setting me straight.