Re-downloading Corrupt Files

[chemist2016]

I downloaded a series a few months earlier, and when i changed its location and tried seeding it again, without me knowing some files became corrupted. i already deleted the previous files in the previous location. will it affect my ratio if i re-downloaded it from the same torrent? thanks in advance ^_^

[K7IA]

Re-downloading a torrent increases your downloaded amount and decreases your ratio.

But chances are, if you can copy the files to a "properly working" drive, you can "repair" the files by simply "assigning the target folder of the torrent to the new location for corrupted files" and reuse the portions of the file that were not affected from the corruption. In this case, you wouldn't have to download the entire file.

However, while copying if you get a CRC error, that would mean you can not copy the files to another drive. In that case, you might have to re-download the entire file or copy the files with a command prompt utility called "xcopy" with  "/C" parameter (Continues copying even if errors occur.) and recover as much data as possible.

[chemist2016]

i see, thank you for sharing that information. it helped me save some bytes of download, though it's sad that i have to download them again, ^^;