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.
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?
IDK. It was hung up at 70 something % and I never got around to deleting it. Then one day after having long forgotten about it the notification saying it was done popped up and I was like “holy shit!”
Check the files included in the torrent. Sometimes the folders include a little readme or something that people set to not download.
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.
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.
Extra files are messy.
Why do I need to know that “Torrent was downloaded from TheSiteINeverVisited.nfo”? It’s just extra noise I don’t need.
i usually find anything past 98% is just done.
Could be me seeding the entire torrent except the readme file
Yarr you need some wind in yer sails matey
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.
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.
Most likely it’s someone who has a VPN that doesn’t support P2P upload or has their config messed up.
Part of why I moved to usenet.
Everything always downloads at full speed (limited by disc write speed in my case), so if there’s missing data you find out about it within a min or two instead of after 3 days of trying.
Usenet also includes parity data so you can rebuild missing data to an extent.
I’m on private trackers and we don’t have problems either.
What does the 0.1% of the file contain anyway, if it’s a video and most of the data is there it might be either playable or if not it probably might be able to be repairable so it can play, albeit with minor corruption in the damaged part.
Video files can be played with as little as 5% downloaded, so long as the header and footer are complete
very loose definition of “played”
