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My BitTorrent download has been stuck at 99.8% for five hours. The bar is green so I have no idea what's going on.
If I pause it and "Force Start" it again there is still no progress.
What's the difference between "Start" and "Force Start"?
What's the difference between "Pause" and "Stop"?
Pacerier
Posted 2011-08-10T18:41:54.340
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Force start will force a download even if you have more downloads going then you enabled at once. For example, if you set a max download limit of 3 torrents, and have 5 all set to "Start", only 3 will run at once. However, if you force-start one of them, then 4 will run.
Pause doesn't kill your connections, it just (severely) limits your transfer speed. It keeps the connection open between peers/seeders (and the tracker), so you can (almost) instantly resume downloading.
Stop closes your connection between you, any peers/seeders, and the tracker.
cp2141
Posted 2011-08-10T18:41:54.340
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Note that the distinction between pause and stop depends on your client. For example in qBittorent, pause closes connections too. – Awn – 2018-07-22T22:13:06.577
3It also means that if you have automatic stop-after-seeding-some-percentage configured, then it will continue seeding regardless of this setting. – Brad – 2011-08-10T18:59:14.513
ok so you are saying if i have unlimited max downloads, Force Start and Start is never going to be any different from the other (and the download speed will not be affected whatsoever)? – Pacerier – 2011-08-10T19:00:26.073
1Force start will also start a torrent that is idle (queued) due to no peers. – Moab – 2011-08-10T21:33:22.080
And which software are you using? – slhck – 2011-08-10T18:50:26.980
@slhck i downloaded it from here http://www.bittorrent.com/downloads
– Pacerier – 2011-08-10T18:58:34.670What is the availability of your file? I suspect that nobody has a full copy, which is why yours is stuck at 99.8%. – Brad – 2011-08-10T19:00:15.387
@Brad wow do you mean the seed is the availability of my file? Because it is currently 0 (0). how do i switch area to search for peers with the file? – Pacerier – 2011-08-10T19:05:15.457
@Brad my peers show 12 (34) do you happen to know if i have 12 peers or 34 peers? – Pacerier – 2011-08-10T19:07:12.817
@Pacerier, No, somewhere there it should list file availability. An availability of 2 means that there are 2 full copies of the torrent available. I suspect yours says 0.998, which means that none of the peers currently have a full copy. – Brad – 2011-08-10T19:07:41.020
@Brad oh my. what can be done to remedy this situation? otherwise everyone will be stuck at 99.98 eventually and never get 100! – Pacerier – 2011-08-10T19:20:40.330
@Pacerier, someone would have to seed the full copy... – Brad – 2011-08-10T19:21:31.280
@Brad so you are saying i need to have my computer on until that person decides to seed? is there something else I can do like connect to a different group of peers or restart my internet or smt? – Pacerier – 2011-08-10T19:31:07.333
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welcome to peer-to-peer :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer
– kokbira – 2011-08-10T20:01:21.293