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SkyDX · 02/07/2008 02:24 PM

Is there a way to fix broken downloads like with torrents? I just download an 1.18GB .exe installer with Firefox and now it says CRC Error while installing.....

Is there any program that can redownload only the missing bytes or something like that?
It takes me 1:18h to readownload the whole thing... I'm pissed....

Thanks for help in advance....

Chroma · 02/07/2008 03:10 PM

Whoa, cool, 1.18GB in 1:18. Trippy.

And I don't believe you can really restore the corrupted parts, as any program you might use to do it wouldn't know what it originally looked like. Sorry, man.

roberth · 02/07/2008 03:15 PM

odds are the actual download is corrupted. If it was a problem on your end, it would have discarded the bad parts and redownloaded them

SkyDX · 02/07/2008 03:26 PM

Well it's almost finished again so thanks anyway for the replys, and yeah I didn't realized it until now but 1.18GB in 1:18h, funny xD

SchmilK · 02/07/2008 03:32 PM

haha...newsgroups for the win...EVERYTHING that is uploaded there also has .par files to go with it.

If you don't know what a par file is....let me enlighten you.

jibbajabba Wrote:PAR files are able to magically fix, and even re-create missing files. Suppose you download 9 of the 10 RAR's from a binary newsgroup that contain a video file, and you can't find the 10th. If the poster included some PAR files, you can download them and actually re-create the missing file! If the poster did not include any PAR's, as newbie posters often do, you could post a message in the group and ask somebody who was able to get all the files to make, and post some PAR's for you. Anybody can make PAR's as long as they have a good copy of the files in question.

more explanation from the place i cut n pasted this from

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