Is the download completed ?

Question

I was in a cafe when I downloaded a torrent file of around 3.52 GB. On the day of download, I downloaded only 1% and went. 2 days later when I returned to the cafe, i found that the file has been fully downloaded. the file folder is showing 3.52 GB of the file. Its an image file. I asked the owner whether the file has really been downloaded. He said two possibilities. One is that I did not pause or stopped the download on the first day and utorrent completed its download. Secondly he said that the file has not been downloaded but is showing falsely showing as full size. I am confused. Why will the file size be falsely shown. Can you help?

Answer 1

The full file size will be shown even though the download is not complete.



Bittorrent clients preallocate the space for the download to avoid running out of space in the midst of a download. This way you are insured that you can complete the download.



So, unless uTorrent is showing that the content is "seeding" (100% complete), the download is not done.

Answer 2

Well i believe when you download anything using utorrent what actucally utorrent does that it detect the size of your harddisk to make sure the file will be downloaded without any problem just to see if there is enough space so whether the utorrent has downloaded 5 percent of the file if you go to check the size of it its gonna be at full size and if the utorrent showen the file was downloaded and when have tried to open it with whatever tools like poweriso and it wont open that mean the file has a problem. I hope this would really help

Answer 3

copy that file in pendrive and check at home, if works, its fine or delete that file.

Answer 4

betteryou check the u torrent seeding or failed