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Antifrag file not transferred to folder upon completion due to low disk space - is the file still useable?

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An 8GB file completed, and disappeared from the downloads list as if it had been transfered from the DC++/Incomplete folder to the correct, finished file's folder. Due to only having 6GB of free space however (my fault, but there you go), the antifrag file in DC++/Incomplete didn't move or get renamed. I freed up some space, made a copy of the antifrag file and removed the latter part of the file name so it was as it should be, but the file doesn't seem to work. Is this because something needs to be done with the antifrag file that got missed because it didn't transfer to the proper folder, or is it more likely that the file is simply corrupted?
If it is something to do with the completion process when the antifrag file is moved between the folders and renamed, is there any way I can recover the file from the antifrag thing without downloading it all over again?
Thanks for any advice.

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#1

Assuming you use the latest version of DC++ you can check the built in help to know exactly how things work with finished downloads. The renamed file - if its really finished - should be ok.
>the file doesn't seem to work
 What type of file is it and what's the error message?

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thetaosit (thetaosit) said : 		#2

Hi, thanks for your reply and for the info. It's an .mkv file - no specfic error message. It just won't play (and I play lots of mkv's, so it's not an issue with codecs or anything).
I'm pretty sure it's finished, too. At least, I've seen it climb in size over the last week or two and everything seems to have been moving along okay.
One other thought occurs after you mentioned having the latest version of DC++. I don't think this is what happened, but there's an outside chance I started this file off downloading before I had the version of DC++ that implimented segmented downloading. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that the mvk file was partially downloaded by the 'old', non-segmented downloading DC++, and the latter half was finished by the newest version. Would that cause a problem?
Perhaps I've just been unlucky and wound up with a corrupted file.
Thanks again for answering, and any further advice you've got would be appreciated.

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#3

Matroska (.mkv) is a container, so it can contain stream that you have no codec installed for. Make sure its not the case (I recommend GSpot, http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm or MediaInfo http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net - both are free utils).
Also you can try to convert the to another format or to another container (eg .avi) and may the conversion process tells you more about the integrity of the file (I recommend MediaCoder, a free utility http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net)

>the mvk file was partially downloaded by the 'old', non-segmented downloading DC++, and the latter half was finished by the newest version.
There are found problems about this but afawk problems CAN only happen if you upgrade to 0.706 and DISABLE the new segmented download option. It is enabled by default so you probably haven't disabled it. I will do an extensive test about this to make sure that no problem can occour with downloads finished with the newest version.

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