Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: Availability and connections of paused files

[Neil Sedger]

Sven Hartge wrote:
> crazee_canuck <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 9:55:08 PM, Neil wrote:
>
>
> > > ALL of my 'paused' downloads have availability of 0.  However,
> > > some of the paused downloads with 0% DLed and 0% available have a
> > > long list of sources (on the right with file selected) and some
> > > of these are in green and say 'connected'!  One of them even says
> > >  'downloading'!?!

> > Is this possibly after running a recover_temp ?

> This happens when the GUI "sees" bytes plopping up because the core 
> realises which chunks are already present and increases the byte
> counter for this file.
>
> S°

hmm. Is there a way for the GUI to tell if a file is actually
downloading or if the core is discovering chunks on its own?

If not, maybe there should be...?

'after running recover_temp' - how long after? Could it be days after
that it 'discovers' that I already have chunks?
How does this happen? Does it need to be actively finding sources for
the file to get it to 'discover'?
Does the core know if a file still has some discovering to do or if its
discovered everything its going to discover?
If it does know, maybe
a) it should show up with a different status in the GUI
b) if that file is 'paused' it should still do what it needs to do to
'discover' all its chunks (without actually downloading anything).

I could have files sitting at 3%, and I've paused them in favour of
files that are at 90%, when in reality these files could have
'undiscovered' chunks sitting on my HD...


Also, none of this answers why a paused file had a list of sources and
some of them had sources connected or downloading!
Does anyone else get this?

Cheers
Neil