Don’t worry, some hero without a cape will appear for you and seed that bitch! (wait, that sound better in my head).
Once or twice I’ve gone and found another source for the download, copied it into my torrents folder, forced my torrent client to re-scan the file and started seeding it.
Watching a thousand other clients tick over from 99% to ‘seeding’ is weirdly gratifying.
Not all hero’s wear capes. Also just so you know there’s a script which does this automatically
I recently had a torrent finish after a year and a half. It wasn’t something I was really concerned about but it gave me a nice feeling to know it had finished.
What in tarnation? who did that to you, what monster…
what in the world compelled you to want it that way?
Check the files included in the torrent. Sometimes the folders include a little readme or something that people set to not download.
Why do people do this? Readmes and nfo files take up literal kilobytes… even over hundreds or even thousands of downloads, at most it’s going to take up a few extra megabytes of download/storage, they’re not saving anything at all. And it can be nice when the nfo includes all the releaser’s original encode settings and stuff.
true, but my jellyfin server doesn’t care. if i didn’t want it, i would’ve unselected it when importing the torrent.
Yea sometimes I’ll exclude the .nfo from my downloads. Thankfully the tracker I’m on now disallows any files that aren’t media in their uploads.
Yes I’ve even had a video file stop at 99.9% and it still played just fine.
For video files I always set it to download first and last parts of files first. You can watch a video fairly well with like 50% downloaded if the file has the first and last section, which contain the data about how the video is stored. It’ll have occasional glitches, but it mostly works. At 99% it’s effectively all there and you may not even notice that last 1%, let alone 0.1%.
Could be me seeding the entire torrent except the readme file
The annoying thing about this is that automated systems (like Radarr/Sonarr) will never get notified that it’s complete, then.
I’ve done the math for how long it’d take to randomly guess the last several kilobytes until something checksummed correctly.
I was not pleased with the answer.
On average it’ll take 2^(n-1) guesses to reconstruct 2^n bits, so… depends on how many hashes / sec you can do.
Haha agreed, if we’re talking about kilobytes of missing data brute forcing is intractable.
There may be structure to exploit in the data format. E.g. if you’re recovering missing content from a book written in English, you can probably get away with enumerating only printable ASCII and 90% of the letters will be lowercase.
But practically, I am unconvinced because the information density is pretty high on the kinds of things people like to torrent.
What’s even worse is when a torrent is stalled at around 94%, there’s exactly one seeder with a full copy in the peer list, but he has fucked up networking rules (or an intentionally choked upload because he’s a dirty leecher) so that despite having an open connection in the peer list, they never send any data…
This seems to happen alot. I always wondered if it is really a peer or some weird spoofed peer that just tries to give you hope before crushing your dreams.
What do you consider choked? I know a lot of people do not have good upload speeds regardless of what the download speeds are.
anything under about 20kb/s is pretty much dead on the larger torrents… a lot of people will turn down their upload limits so that protocol traffic can pass but actual pieces never get sent. It’s irritating to say the least.
i had a similar one, godawful speed (i don’t remember how much, but it was measured in single or double digit kbit/s) and turned on their computer when i went to bed, and off exactly when i came back from work.
ended up leaving the computer on the whole day for a few days. this guy owes me 5 bucks.
If he’s the single seed left on a torrent, chances are he’s the last seed on a bunch of other torrents as well, and his bandwidth is being choked by everyone who wants his stuff.
Wouldn’t torrents be able to solve that issue because everyone is sharing with everyone else?
The last peer might only have 10kbps upload but as long as the other peers are sharing with one another everyone can pull down 10kbps because that is how fast new data is getting sent to the swarm.
