![]() We see more and more useless padding files in torrents, and it gets really inconvenient — delete them then we cannot pass hash check and cannot seed and no matter what, we get a bunch of wastes especially our precious upload bandwidth.” “I and lots of my friends don’t use BitComet, and many others stick with older versions of BitComet. “Fuzzier,” who has been leading the charge on several forums (including Wikipedia), sums it up: Some BitTorrent users are starting to get annoyed by these (for most people) useless padding files. This means that Bitcomet 0.85+ users will never be able to complete their downloads without switching to another client. It has been reported that a malicious user could create a torrent with a fake padding file. ![]() ![]() The padding file feature might come to bite BitComet users. However, it is possible in rare circumstances that the amount of junk data caused by these files might exceed 10%. The average added overhead for an MP3 album will be around 3%, not too bad, but annoying because its junk data to most people. torrent, so if you download a collection of 100 MP3s you’ll be forced to download 100 (useless) padding files ( see example). A padding file is created for every file in the. torrent, non BitComet users have to download these useless padding files. The padding feature is enabled by default, so if a BitComet user created a. It impacts people who use uTorrent, Azureus or any other client than BitComet. If they had been more communicative, such as pre-publishing a specification, client makers and administrators of Torrent sites could then program their systems to mask them. Unfortunately, BitComet’s development team sprung these padding files on to the rest of the community. ![]() However, the implementation of these padding files create problems for non-Bitcomet clients and the web sites that carry information from the *.torrent files. This is good both for the (BitComet) user and the swarm. mp3 files, it tries to get some of those files from a non-BitTorrent source if possible. This overcomes the problem of ending one file and beginning another on the same BitTorrent “piece.” The feature was added to support finding sources from http/ftp/ed2k services on multi-file torrents.įor example, if BitComet users are downloading a set of. For every file in a multi-file torrent, BitComet includes a padding file by default. ![]()
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