Most of the stuff I torrent is off archive.org nowadays, but I’ve found way too many archive.org torrents that sit at 99.7% complete. I can’t figure out why that is. I’ve tried rechecking, redownloading, and so forth, but it just… Doesn’t finish.
Usually this is because early in the torrent’s life, there were one or two files that people didn’t want to download for various reasons and eventually, nobody was seeding them anymore. This is why a lot of private trackers prohibit partial downloads
What’s frustrating to me is that in theory none of the torrents/magnet links should get stuck, as they have archive.org set as a direct download/web source backup. But I’ve literally never seen that feature fucking work. Ever.
Most of the stuff I torrent is off archive.org nowadays, but I’ve found way too many archive.org torrents that sit at 99.7% complete. I can’t figure out why that is. I’ve tried rechecking, redownloading, and so forth, but it just… Doesn’t finish.
Usually this is because early in the torrent’s life, there were one or two files that people didn’t want to download for various reasons and eventually, nobody was seeding them anymore. This is why a lot of private trackers prohibit partial downloads
Archive also usually has a direct download option, if you can’t get the content from torrents there.
What’s frustrating to me is that in theory none of the torrents/magnet links should get stuck, as they have archive.org set as a direct download/web source backup. But I’ve literally never seen that feature fucking work. Ever.
Are there only specific files missing? Like archive-added metadata.