occasionally resuming a torrent w/a new client can erase everything d/l'd so far if the new torrent creates (or in this case re-creates) a new folder and new files with the same name. it could overwrite your partials w/zero-bit files. to prevent this possibility i stop the download, cut and paste the partially completed original folder to a new location, resume the d/l with the new client creating it's new (and bit-less) folder, then stop the d/l once more. next, i move the original folder back to the original location, and let explorer overwrite the bit-less files with my partially-completed saved ones.
a final restart gets things back to normal. the client checks for the completion-percentage (10, 50, 90%-whatever) and continues from there with the partial files intact, as if nothing had happened.
this works well with corrupted clients that need to be re-installed during a download.
- js.
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