anniyan Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 i was in the process of downloading some files in BitTorrent [7.9.2 build 41373][32bit]. the next time i turned BitTorrent on and started the download tasks, a particular download task which was around 85% complete showed as "error: cannot read from disk" (maroon color), so i paused it and did a 'force-recheck' after which it showed as 0.9% only complete (around 16 GB of bandwidth wasted ). any chance of recovering the lost data? or i have to run the task again from the beginning? after a week, the same disaster struck on my another download task (around 10 GB of bandwidth wasted ) i have no clue about what happened. other downloads in BitTorrent are unaffected as of now, but i am afraid of losing their progress too in future. anybody knows why and how to remedy this? i am very desperate. thanks in advance PS.: if this topic is gonna be closed to further replies, i would like to know the reason in detail. coz when i posted this in another forum, it was rudely terminated without a detailed reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Are you saving directly to an external? Are you manually deleting files you had skipped? As for the other forum, based on what I can see of the thread, you were actually given a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniyan Posted April 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 1. no, they are saved in c:\users\username\downloads\bittorrent\ 2. no i am not interfering with bittorrent's download process in anyway. i just start BT, select the downloads i need to continue, right-click -> force-start. when i want to exit BT, i pause all running torrents, wait for DL and UL speeds to reach 0.0, then exit BT. i have had no problems using this process in the past. what i suspect is maybe other software i installed this week might be the cause (or not). am i allowed to list them here, so that you can say which might be the culprit? 28 minutes ago, Harold Feit said: As for the other forum, based on what I can see of the thread, you were actually given a reason. i admit that i was given some reason, but it was not detailed enough for me to understand why, pardon my ignorance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 You shouldn't be doing any interference like pausing the torrent when you're restarting your computer. Internet security software and media indexers are the most likely 3rd party causes of problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniyan Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 15 hours ago, Harold Feit said: You shouldn't be doing any interference like pausing the torrent when you're restarting your computer. without pausing the torrent and exiting bittorrent, how can i shut-down my computer? if this procedure is not followed, the downloads will get corrupted, wont they? btw, what i suspect is maybe other software i installed this week might be the cause (or not). am i allowed to list them here, so that someone can say which might be the culprit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 BitTorrent automatically commits the pieces it has in cache to disk on shutdown. It is not necessary nor is it recommended to pause first in the way you do. What was the other software you installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniyan Posted April 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 update : another 2 tasks faced the same fate today (around 30GB). and a download task (a cartoon series) of 15.6GB got completed today after 6 months. so i stopped it and removed it from bittorrent ('remove and delete .torrent' command). when i opened the file, the media player says that no video is found. i examined the file and found that it is filled with 00 00 00 ..... etc, fully. i suspect the presence of some kind of malware that affects my bittorrent downloads. and even worse is that no malware-removal-forum would help me coz of their anti-P2P policies. is there any malware-removal-forum that will help me? i am stuck, please guide me in the right direction, sir. some software i use: 1. qihoo total security with builtin bitdefender and avira engines 2. shadow defender (but with shadow mode exited) 3. dashlane password manager premium 4. peerblock or alternatively bot-revolt 5. zonealarm firewall 6. zemana antilogger (turned off when using bittorrent) 7. hitmanpro.alert 8. ad-muncher (turned off when using bittorrent) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted April 17, 2016 Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 1> Complete unknown, not recommended 4> Known to be problematic 5> Known to be problematic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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