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torrent question ( prolly stupid butttttttttttttttttt)
    #5038074 - 12/09/05 07:38 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

ok, i have downloaded a few files from torrent sites.  an app and a movie,  and one thing that has been puzzling me, is once the file is downloaded there is MANY rar files in it, and they all contain the same files in them as each other.

this has just been happening, ive downloaded a large number of files through torrent before, and once downloaded those were just a single copy of the file.

why does the newer files i download have many of the same file, and if i was to want to burn the app/game/movie, would i have to include all of the duplicates, or "extract and amend" the files with each of the duplicate files in the torrent

lol hope i made this clear, i aint had my coffee yet :eek:


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Re: torrent question ( prolly stupid butttttttttttttttttt) [Re: ChromeCrow]
    #5038365 - 12/09/05 08:57 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

Just open on of those rar files, the whole movie will show up in the archive anyway. Just extract it then

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Re: torrent question ( prolly stupid butttttttttttttttttt) [Re: ChromeCrow]
    #5038369 - 12/09/05 08:58 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

each rar is a segment of that single file.

for example:
i have neatogame on a DVD
i copy the image to neatogame.iso.
neatogame.iso is 4GB in size.
i could just share out neatogame.iso but then you are forced to finish the entire file in one sitting.

so... i load up rar and compress the file but instead of making neatogame.rar which would be ~3.5GB I set my max rar filesize to something reasonable like 5MB.
so, now i have multiple 5mb rar compressed segments of neatogame.iso.

when i share these out you can download each piece at a time, use repair utilities like par to recreate any missing rars and each piece will fit in the average email size limit.


to extract the whole neatogame.iso you will need to open the neatogame.rar file in your rar utility (maybe winrar) and then extract to the location of your choice. the utility should begin processing each rar segment in sequence and will fail if it runs into a missing file or gap in the sequence (where repairs like par come in handy).

so, in short, yes each rar file contains the same neatogame.iso file but each one is a segment of the whole thing.

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