by soul1355 » 23 Apr 2011 08:29
I have a fat32 formatted partition that I use for storing bulk media etc. so as to be able to access it easily from Linux which I play with from time to time. I decided to put my downloads folder here, and shareaza has been saving to it since. I just tried to download a file that exceeded the 4GB file-size limit, and found that shareaza simply downloads endlessly, only ever verifying 4GB of the file, the rest of the data, is simply ignored and downloaded again. While I understand this is a dying problem, as I now realize that Linux handles NTFS well enough most of the time, and I can find a better solution if I ever find it doesn't, I can't imagine it would be hard to have shareaza check the file-system format, and respond better to limits. even if its simply blocking downloads that are too big, or blocking FAT as the download location altogether. I have solved the immediate issue just fine, but the GB's I let flow into nothingness before I realized there was a problem say this should be addressed. again, doesn't need to be fancy, just better than the infinite download.
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soul1355 on 15 May 2011 21:07, edited 1 time in total.