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Is there any way, other than occasionally stopping and restarting the torrent, to prevent everything I have downloaded from being lost if my computer decides to shut down?

Erm, it shouldn't be lost anyway.

XaLEv wrote:Is there any way, other than occasionally stopping and restarting the torrent, to prevent everything I have downloaded from being lost if my computer decides to shut down?

Your question isn't exactly clear

The data should be there after an unexpected system reset, and you can resume from there~

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Erm, it shouldn't be lost anyway.

At least the earlier versions of BitTorrent could lose a couple of percents of the download if the computer chrashes in the middle of downloading. I once lost over a gigabyte due a computer crash caused by a power-out, but I've heard that the problem should be fixed in the later versions.

You mean for some reason if your computer conks out and you try to resume the same file it simply starts over from the beginning?

If that's the case, it happens to me too. I simply run ScanDisk over it.

Are you running FAT32? That will cause problems if you computer unexpectedly shuts down.

Cyborg Stan wrote:You mean for some reason if your computer conks out and you try to resume the same file it simply starts over from the beginning?

phongn wrote:Are you running FAT32? That will cause problems if you computer unexpectedly shuts down.

Yes.

Looks like your download got someone corrupted in the reboot and BitTorrent had to restart again. I'm guessing that you can't use NTFS.

Sir Sirius wrote:

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Erm, it shouldn't be lost anyway.

At least the earlier versions of BitTorrent could lose a couple of percents of the download if the computer chrashes in the middle of downloading. I once lost over a gigabyte due a computer crash caused by a power-out, but I've heard that the problem should be fixed in the later versions.

Warning: Never, ever, use the original Bittorrent client. I've heard nothing but horror. That's probably the problem right there. You need the shad0w client.

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Warning: Never, ever, use the original Bittorrent client. I've heard nothing but horror. That's probably the problem right there. You need the shad0w client.

Doode give a Link when you reccomend stuff

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Warning: Never, ever, use the original Bittorrent client. I've heard nothing but horror. That's probably the problem right there. You need the shad0w client.

I've been running BT with the original client literary 24/7 for 6 months and I've had problems with it just once (the incident mentioned above) and that was with an older version.