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How do I change the size of the block when downloading in 0.705?

Asked by Pokermon

I downloaded version 0.705 and now I have something called "block" when downloading. If I download a movie it divides the movie into 2 Mib blocks! This means that when I go to my finished downloads there are about 350 finished downloads for 1 movie.

It also slows down the speed since the connection is aborted after 2 Mib and then it starts up again.

How can I fix this?

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#1

You can set the segment size in Settings/Advanced/Experts Only/Min.segment size. You should specify the amount in kilobytes.
Expect the spamming of the finished downloads removed in the next release(s) as it reported as a bug (and asked/answered many times here...)

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Best eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#2

eMTee suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #81: “How do I change the size of the chunks when downloading in 0.705+? How can I disable segmential downloads?”.

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Pokermon (erik-sebo) said : 		#3

Wrote 100000 and that seems to work! Thanks

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peck (ekstra) said : 		#4

Wouldn't it sort of beat the purpose by setting it to nearly 100MB? If you don't like it "flickering" that much, change it to a few megs at the most. You won't loose the slot just because it takes them chunk by chunk. Downloading the same file from several people has only been to my advantage. A 700MB movie in 1-2 minutes compared to up to 20 minutes earlier. Big improvement.

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nikki (swimgirl2007) said : 		#5

You can also go to Settings/Advanced and click the box next to "Enable segmented downloads" to remove the check mark there.

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QRoX (royal-roost) said : 		#6

When I try to download a file I have this message from an user: Out of Segment, only complete files left.

In the description field of the user says: 51200kb in segment size or no slot. My client is 0.7091

So... what must I do to fix this? Thank you for your help