Re: [Mldonkey-users] How do you know which sources are full sources?

[Goswin Brederlow]

"Mike Jones" <address@hidden> writes:

> How can you tell which sources have the complete file?

Basically you can't. There is no cammnd to actually show what chunks
each client has and the gui protocol doesn't send that info.

But who cares?

The availability shows you what chunks all clinets you are connected
to currently have and the last_seen gives you the oldest time of the
times when you last connected to a client that had a chunk. (confused
yet?).

Starting from the time last_seen ago you have seen all chunks of a
file at least once on one client or another. That means currently
connected clients and unconnected ones.

A last_seen time of 100d (or SEARCHING in the current deb) means you
haven't yet seen all chunks and if you are downloading it for some
time its likely to be incomplete.

Also in the gtk gui when you select a file in the downloads tab you
see a bar diagram at the bottom. A green bar means you have that
chunk. A red bar means you are not connected to anyone having that
chunk and a blue bar means you are connected to someone having that
chunk. The higher the blue bar the more sources you are connected too.

MfG
        Goswin