How to resume a corrupted download?

Posted by mkhairul - October 6, 2007 at 09:10:16 am -

Categories: Tips, blog

Have you ever download a file, huge file (2GB or more) and at the end of the download, when you try to extract or install it, an error message pops up, An error has occured (CRC check failed) etc. Oh man, some might say "Argh! Fuck this shit". And move on with their lives.

That’s not an option for me. Either I redownload it again (and wait for another 20 hours (because I limit my downloads to like 50kB/s to play other games or do some other stuffs like watching google TechTalk)) or try to resume it. Free Download Manager already has a resume capability which isn’t so good hence the corrupted downloads. Another way is to find a torrent for it. Try to resume the download by overwriting the existing file, the torrent client will check all the hashes and continue from the corrupt pieces (redownloading it). I’ve successfully made several tries of uncorrupting download files.

Resuming corrupted files ain’t hard. There might be some other way, but this way works for me, until I find something else or bump into things that the torrent way can’t solve. I am content.

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